Fined £275 for watching YOUTUBE

HappyMJ

goater78 wrote: »

You do if you want to watch live programs on Iplayer. I believe they live stream all channels now as well as doing catchup

What about if you bring up Iplayer and watch what was broadcast 1 minute ago would that still be OK. Iplayer has the last 2 hours of broadcast material immediately accessible.

System

HappyMJ wrote: »

What about if you bring up Iplayer and watch what was broadcast 1 minute ago would that still be OK. Iplayer has the last 2 hours of broadcast material immediately accessible.

I would guess so!

C_Mababejive

The English are so compliant. Thats why they get carpped on every time...

pcombo

I would tell BBC where to go the bunch of morons that they are.

Its not like there is an acceptance box you need to tick to agree to watch anything no does BBC Iplayer. So send the fine back with a letter thats what i would do.

maninthestreet

The BBC can't fine anyone - only a court could do that. The OP needs to post some more details of how they claim to be fined for watching someone's home-made movies on youtube because they didn't have a TV licence.

Oliver14

SEE wrote: »

I've just been fined £275 by the BBC for watching YOUTUBE. I had no idea you needed a TV licence for a computer to watch other peoples home made movies. I've also been told that you need a TV licence for a DVD player by the courts, but DVDs are purchased and paid for, why do people need to pay again? I'M STUNNED!

So what bit of information have you neglected to tell us?

Nilrem

BargainGalore wrote: »

something does not ring true with the 1st post as said you dont get fined for watching youtube by BBC for home made movies

Aye I cannot believe the court said you needed a licence to watch DVD's when even the TVLA site says otherwise.

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Also 275 sounds very high for a licence fee fine, given the average is about £170 or so from what i've seen/heard (by magistrates and papers etc, usually including the "victim surcharge").

yangptangkipperbang

NeverInDebt wrote: »

What a nice story.

yup ! just that - a story !

Evilm

If someone has sent you a letter or something claiming that then they aren't the BBC! Despite which the BBC don't directly deal with TV Licenses - TV Licensing do!

Nilrem

Evilm wrote: »

If someone has sent you a letter or something claiming that then they aren't the BBC! Despite which the BBC don't directly deal with TV Licenses - TV Licensing do!

Aye and only the court can impose a fine, and that would require either attending court of getting a letter from the court calling you in, and ignoring it.

IIRC the magistrates and clerks at the courts that deal with TVL stuff know the requirements very well (I've heard of magistrates giving a lot of benefit of the doubt when there has been any question*), and would know the requirements for the TV licence better than most.
Certainly better than the checkout girls at Asda who require you to fill in a TVL form whenever you buy a DVD player, or a purely (only hdmi/dvi/vga input) computer monitor.

This does also ignore the fact that the fine from the TVL cases never goes near the BBC, it goes to the treasury, so it wouldn't be payable to the BBC anyway.

If the op has had a letter claiming to fine him and that he has to pay it to the BBC, I would be contacting trading standards and the police ASAP, as it could be a scam like those "Hi, I'm from Windows you've got a virus, pay us £60 to fix it" calls.

*By all accounts the magistrates dislike the regular TVL block of cases, which is part of the reason the average fine is very low compared to the maximum, and often actually less than the TVL.