That's a semantic argument really. The license fee funds the BBC, and the BBC are the ones who care about collecting it (even if at arms length with the officia

That's a semantic argument really. The license fee funds the BBC, and the BBC are the ones who care about collecting it (even if at arms length with the official 'enforcer'). Every argument about the future of the license fee, or not paying it on an individual level, explicitly state the BBC as the benefactor of this fee. The fact that it's tied to equipment capable of receiving live broadcasts (until September) is not much more than a clever workaround.