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GreatAlbatross @feddit.uk

2mo ago

I bet they want milk and biscuits too.

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"Yes I'll be in, watching Christmas te-aaah you almost got me there!"
- New Wallace and Grommet though, might be worth it.

What's that about, for the non-Brits casually hanging out in this community?
- The BBC is weirdly aggressive about trying to get people to pay for their TV usage, but they’re also pretty impotent. They’ll try to come into your house to see if you have a TV set, at which point you’re probably obligated to pay for the license. You don’t have to let them in, though, so all they can really do is pester you
  
  Iirc, revenue protection is run by our favourite outsourcing outfit, Capita.
  
  That's still a thing? In Finland they got rid of that in 2013 (still later than I thought) and replaced that with a tax for funding out national broadcasting channels
  
  Unless they can evidence you are watching live TV or BBC iPlayer you still don't require a TV licence!
  The best thing to do is just go to the website they give you and fill out the form to say you don't watch broadcasts and they leave you alone for a couple of years.
  
  Ah ok, same as in Germany then. Though they are getting more and more liberties, to the point of signing you up by themselves and then it's on you to prove you don't own a TV. And since a few years, even a laptop or phone qualifies since you can use those to access public broadcasting channels through their website, making it really hard to prove you got absolutely nothing, unless you can somehow convince them to be both blind and deaf.

Not many people know, but your standard British TV Licence actually functions as a "Televisual Letter of Marque".
The Letter of Marque permits you to legally seize televisual material from any other source in the name of the crown, as a state-sponsored privateer, rather than a common pirate.
At least, that was what I had been led to believe, officer. You'll have to take it up with TV Licencing. Nothing to do with me, officer.
- I wasn't watching television, I was observing remote images!
  God, bloody sheeple don't know their own natural law it seems.

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