Fined £275 for watching YOUTUBE

WelshBluebird

To those blabbing on about the BBC, you do realise that the fee is used for other things too? Granted the majority goes to the BBC, but not all of it.

And some of the comments here are crazy. Comparing the BBC to the SS? Really? I'd like to see evidence of the BBC murdering millions.

bris

WelshBluebird wrote: »

Comparing the BBC to the SS? Really? I'd like to see evidence of the BBC murdering millions.

Have you seen Eastenders recently?

bod1467

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Is there some special meaning to the 100th and 200h replies :huh:

None whatsoever, other than them being numbers more likely to be noticed in a list.

Cornucopia

bazster wrote: »

I fail to see what the problem is with someone visiting to "confirm the facts"...

Because that's not how British legal principles work. There's no other agency that just "drops round" to check that you aren't breaking the law, and that you are paying your taxes.

The BBC's process is designed either just within or just outside the law to get around the fact that legislators never intended for them to do anything other than drive down the street with a Detector Van.

I don't know why they don't do that, and it's not important to me. But the fact that they don't doesn't give them carte blanche to just make up their own process and inflict upon the population, to undermine historic legal principles and to pretend that they have an authority to do it all.

It's a bad thing. And if it were anyone other than the BBC, I suspect they would never get away with it... the BBC would be on their backs from day one.

[Deleted User]

Quite so Cornucopia.

I don't have a rod licence, but I've never had the NRA pop round, to confirm whether I'm fishing.

Likewise, I don't have a LGV/PCV licence, but I've never had the DVLA pop round, to confirm whether I'm driving an artic or a coach.

Flyboy152

Flyboy152 wrote: »

You seem happy to use the services that everyone else pays for, I wonder if you would be so sanguine when the BBC run out of money and have to cancel your freeloading.

The_Safordian wrote: »

What are the "services" you refer to?

iPlayer and Radio?

If you mean the mighty BBC I do not watch it, I don't agree with left-wing propaganda.

I really can't see "Only Fools and Horses" being classed as "left-wing propaganda." Perhaps "The Tellytubbies" are closet commies and that "Bob the Builder" bloke must be a cert for taking over from Brendan Barber.

Funny how certain people can keep abusing fellow members like you are now

Oh dear.....really....Abuse?

Flyboy152

The_Safordian wrote: »

I did post the link and I did point out there are 7 million people without a BBC TV Licence. Now the BBC send those people one letter every month, a threatogram..................work it out

Maybe if they stopped freeloading off of everybody else, the BBC wouldn't need to waste so much money chasing them.

Flyboy152

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

To stop the letters, I should buy a TV Licence I don't actually need :huh:

£14-50 a year is quite a price to pay, to stop junk mail.

Buying a licence you don't need, to stop letter you haven't asked for, sounds like giving in to blackmail.

It would still stop the letters though and when you watch television you will be able to do so with a clear conscience.

[Deleted User]

Flyboy152 wrote: »

Maybe if they stopped freeloading off of everybody else, the BBC wouldn't need to waste so much money chasing them.

Not everyone without a licence is an evader.

Indeed, the BBC reckon there are about 1.3 million evading addresses, so the vast majority aren't evading.

[Deleted User]

Flyboy152 wrote: »

It would still stop the letters though

It'd be an awfully expensive way of stopping junk mail.

and when you watch television you will be able to do so with a clear conscience.

I don't watch TV, so I already have a clear conscience.