MSE News: Web licence to be compulsory for ALL internet users

MiserlyMartin

jammerr wrote: »

some of you are biggest killjoys known in existence. it was funny.

'The BBC do actually want to extend the TV licence fee to cover catch up TV and thus, iPlayer, Youtube and the internet!!!!'

Any evidence or just scaremongering?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/31/bbc-tv-licence-fee-extend-to-iplayer

However, research carried out by the BBC Trust in 2009, before services such as YouView were conceived, conceded that changes may be necessary.
In its 2009 review of licence fee collection, the trust wrote: "It is not yet clear whether households are likely to switch to internet streaming as the sole method of watching television, avoiding the use of a dedicated television set. It is clear, however, that this is happening in some segments – research for the BBC Executive shows that 40% of students in halls of residence use a laptop as their main way to watch TV.

jobdone1

Taking the f***king !!!!

arcon5

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

And when the £145 TV licence becomes a £300 coms licence, levied on everybody who has a phone or computer access - because they're just luxuries that mere disabled people don't deserve for free - will it still be amusing?

What on earth has disability got to do with it?

Kite2010

Please don't give labour any ideas when they come back into power in 2015.

Retro_Bunny

Nicholas-bloody-Parsons wrote: »

This is not a joke. The BBC do actually want to extend the TV licence fee to cover catch up TV and thus, iplayer, Youtube and the internet!!!! :eek::eek::eek:

:mad:
Stop posting utter rubbish, go back to school and learn something...

BBC is part-funded by the TV licence fees together with income earned (sales of programmes to other stations, BBC Worldwide Ltd etc). This funds a number of departments of the BBC including TV, Web, Production, Digital Switchover and others; this covers everything you've stated like iPlayer and BBC websites.

Youtube is American, so absolutely nothing to do with the UK TV Licence...:wall:

The TV licence has been frozen for the last 3 years. A massive rise is illegal / not permitted under the current arrangements, so we're safe from your premonitions...

brewerdave

Retro_Bunny -think you will find that the licence cost is frozen until 2016/7??

madmuppet5

I don't see why anyone would need a TV license these days there is enough content on the web to last a lifetime. You can watch via the various iplayers available. As long as you are not watching or recording as programmes are being transmitted live then you are legally license free
As for the TV detector vans this is a myth that the BBC have conjured up for over 60 years into scaring people to pay the TV tax.
Under a freedom of information request the BBC had to admit that no one has ever been prosecuted from "evidence" collected from the detector vans.
A TV license enforcement officer has no more right than a double glazing salesman to enter your property

Retro_Bunny

brewerdave wrote: »

Retro_Bunny -think you will find that the licence cost is frozen until 2016/7??

Apologies - I couldn't find anything about current cost on the internet and was aware that the 6 years funding deal ended in 2012.
I stand corrected, with thanks.

Cornucopia

Retro_Bunny wrote: »

:mad:
Stop posting utter rubbish, go back to school and learn something...

You've misunderstood what NBP was saying.

In fact, it's true that the BBC/BBC Trust/Government have speculated about extending the TV Licence to the web in some way. (Which is what NBP meant).

In addition, of the countries that have TV licences (many do not) some of them have recently made changes that take them away from being similar to ours to...

(a) broaden them to include the web in some way. (proposed in Ireland).
(b) make them apply to households, not equipment - avoiding the need to detect evasion. (e.g. Germany, Finland, Iceland)

I suspect that in due course, we will see either or both of these measures in the UK.

K9sandFelines

OMG i was making plans to get rid of the telly and my DD is going nuts!!!

Well done !!