I tried to forment a war against the BBC (Off-Topic)

by scarab @, Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 11:03 (3849 days ago) @ kapowaz

If your apparatus is CAPABLE of receiving or recording then you are liable and will be fined if you don't have a license. You don't have to be caught watching - they just need to prove that you could have watched. The wording on the law was: set up to receive or record broadcast tv signals.

I think iPlayer warns you if you try to watch something on the same day but, I think, that it's a dialog box with a don't-ask-me-again checkbox. Too bad for you if you let your license lapse and think that you are OK because it's safe to use iPlayer.

I bought something from PC World, I can't remember what it was but it wasn't a TV and the girl at the till wanted my address for the BBC. I raised a stink and the manager put his address on the form. It was probably a monitor with a built in TV tuner. I bought it as a monitor.


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