RE: UK TV Licensing and Live YouTube
September 27, 2016 at 5:24 am
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2016 at 5:26 am by Homeless Nutter.)
Unless you have actual dedicated equipment for TV reception, I don't believe they can do anything to you. An inspector guy came round the other day and since I have no TV, I let him in, so he could sniff around. I assured him, when asked, that none of my computers have a TV card (which they don't, although I doubt he would be able to check, if I was lying, unless I had TV running while he was there) and he f*cked off, hopefully not to come back for a while.
If an inspector actually caught you watching some British TV streamed online, on iPlayer, or over YouTube - they probably would insist, that you need a licence, but other than that unlikely scenario - I doubt they have the right to do anything, like check your internet history, or whatever. I think their whole strategy is to scare gullible people into buying the licence, just to be safe. Or to bust dumb wankers, who have huge plasma screens in their living rooms.
If an inspector actually caught you watching some British TV streamed online, on iPlayer, or over YouTube - they probably would insist, that you need a licence, but other than that unlikely scenario - I doubt they have the right to do anything, like check your internet history, or whatever. I think their whole strategy is to scare gullible people into buying the licence, just to be safe. Or to bust dumb wankers, who have huge plasma screens in their living rooms.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
