| Re: whoa hang on: Is this the end of the television set? BBC1 to broadcast live on the internet |
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Group: uk.telecom · Group Profile
Author: DoughboyDoughboy Date: Jun 5, 2008 09:49
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 21:07:45 -0700 (PDT), alpy
googlemail.com> wrote:
>TV Licensing, the body which collects the licence fee, said last night
>that families still needed to pay the licence fee if they were
>watching shows on a computer.
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>A spokesman said the fee was for the right to watch shows as they are
>broadcast on any device.
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>He claimed they had already caught users who were watching shows on
>their computers without a licence.
I'd say that TV Licensing are being deliberately misleading. The
licence "allows television receivers to be installed and used".
I think it would be a stretch to argue that a PC that doesn't have a
tuner card installed qualifies as a television receiver, just because
it's connected to the Internet and various parties have decided to
make their programmes available online.
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