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"I cancelled my TV licence 2 years ago after checking with them that I did not need a TV licence to watch such as Iplayer etc, as I found I was watching very li
by denton-scratch 3y ago
"I cancelled my TV licence 2 years ago after checking with them that I did not need a TV licence to watch such as Iplayer etc, as I found I was watching very little TV due to work and then when I did nothing I watched was live - or at the broadcast time."
Sharon, barnsley UK
Sharon was mistaken. You do need a licence to watch iPlayer. You need a licence to watch satellite and cable. You need a licence to watch streaming services like Netflix or Prime. You don't have to be watching it live, you need a licence to record or timeshift. I think you don't need a licence to watch pre-recorded material on VHS/DVD/Blueray.
The vans do exist (or at least they did - I haven't seen one since the 70s). I'm pretty certain they were bogus. There's a lot of bullshit in those comments; I assume some of it is from the TV Licensing Authority.
There's a comment there saying that the TVLA doesn't have the power to investigate and prosecute under the Police And Criminal Evidence Act; that is false. The TVLA has the same prosecuting powers as the Post Office, currently notorious for the Horizon Scandal.
At the very bottom of TFA, there's a date: the article is from 2011. Maybe that should be appended to the HN title.
TV licensing is absurd. You're expected to fund the BBC via the licence, even if you don't watch BBC. And in funding the BBC, you are funding the World Service, a government propaganda operation controlled by the Foreign Office. The Director General of the BBC is appointed directly by the government, so arguably the BBC is a government operation, and should be funded from taxes. If it were funded from taxes, we might not have 4 (four!) BBC TV channels, in addition to the panoply of TV channels broadcast by companies that are not the BBC, but in which the BBC is a majority shareholder and provides much of the content (e.g. Dave).
End it, already.
- toast0 3y agoWhat's the difference between a license and a tax? What if cigarettes were untaxed, but bundled with a license to smoke?
- cassianoleal 3y ago> You need a licence to watch streaming services like Netflix or Prime. You don't have to be watching it live, you need a licence to record or timeshift. This is wrong. Do I need a TV Licence to watch Youtube? If you are watching a TV programme live on YouTube, you need to be covered by a TV Licence. A licence is not required to view user generated content, clips and videos on YouTube. This includes live streamed content that is not part of a television broadcast. Or being broadcast at the same time by other means. --- Do I need a TV Licence to watch Netflix? You don’t need a TV Licence to watch on demand programmes on Netflix. --- Do you need a TV Licence to watch Amazon Prime? If you’re watching TV showing live on Amazon Prime, you need to be covered by a TV Licence. You don’t need a TV Licence if you’re only watching on demand programmes on Amazon Prime. --- Do you need a TV Licence to watch Disney Plus? You don’t need a TV Licence to watch on demand programmes on Disney Plus. Source: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/ContentServer?c=Page&childpagename=TVL/Page/TVL1ColumnFAQ&pagename=TVLWrapper&rendermode=preview&cid=1339697263400 https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/ContentServer?c=Page&childp...
- denton-scratch 3y agoI stand corrected; I checked my facts before posting, but I guess I relied on a different page.
- ghusto 3y ago> You need a licence to watch streaming services like Netflix or Prime. Please don't listen to this person, you do not need a T.V. license if you don't have a T.V. and don't use iPlayer. Don't let them scare you with their idiot door-to-door license salesmen either. These people have absolutely zero special powers. The correct answer to "are you refusing my right to inspect your home for a T.V." is "fuck off".