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**Chris** · 17-11-2010, 16:47

First things first - the inspectors get a bounty for each household they sign up for a licence. That's why they keep coming back. In fact, it certainly used to be the case that they could sign up a house for a Direct Debit, then when they cancel their DD 6 months later go back, sign them up again and get a second bounty - repeat endlessly for further enrichment. This was in the mid 2000s, it may have changed now, but I did know one inspector who made a tidy sum out of it.

Second - you don't need a tuner card in your PC to watch live TV on it. That hasn't been the case for some years now, with the explosion in live streaming services, not least from the BBC. The inspector is of course still wrong to claim your neighbour needs a licence for owning a piece of equipment that 'could be' used for watching TV.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,300	Re: TV licence for watching online live streams First things first - the inspectors get a bounty for each household they sign up for a licence. That's why they keep coming back. In fact, it certainly used to be the case that they could sign up a house for a Direct Debit, then when they cancel their DD 6 months later go back, sign them up again and get a second bounty - repeat endlessly for further enrichment. This was in the mid 2000s, it may have changed now, but I did know one inspector who made a tidy sum out of it. Second - you don't need a tuner card in your PC to watch live TV on it. That hasn't been the case for some years now, with the explosion in live streaming services, not least from the BBC. The inspector is of course still wrong to claim your neighbour needs a licence for owning a piece of equipment that 'could be' used for watching TV.