TV License Student Rip Off?

ALIBOBSY

My 16 nearly 17 yr old hasn't watched a programme on live tv for years. He and most of his mates simply have PS3's or xboxes etc connected to a tv with netflix or amazon streaming service.

I doubt that generation will stand for paying for tv they don't want and never use.

TBH once our younger two children grow out of watching live tv we will get rid of the virgin box-we have no ariel and the sockets have already been blanked out. We will just use dvd's and netflix and maybe on occasion online catchup services. Then we will get rid of the licence.

I don't know anyone under 45 ish who would vote to keep the LF and the current system. The only people I know who want it is the older generation who I feel have a romantic idea of "aunty beeb" but sadly those days have long gone.

This week I have only watched one single programme on ANY BBC channel and that was Doctor who and was on catchup!

TBH I bet our whole family probably only watched maybe 3 hrs over the week from BBC.

BUT we have to have a lic to watch the other channels we pay for and actually want to watch. What a rip off.

Ali x

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Even my 5 year old watches most of his TV streamed from the net. You can even get an android app to stream freeview channels to a chromecast dongle.. I'd laugh at getting a TV license at uni now

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ringo_24601 wrote: »

In halls of residence, we never bought licenses as the guards told us they would never let them in the building. When we shared a house, we bought once license and split the cost. The idiots who lived across the road didn't get a license at all AND they let the TV license people in. Big fine for them.

Our halls did let them in but only via a prearranged visit.

We had a great cleaner, on many many levels, but she would move your TV into your wardrobe if she knew there was an inspection scheduled for that day. (obv back then they were all little 12-15" CRT things and not 55" bohemouths)

As others have said, the rules are simple, you choose to abide by them or you run the risk of breaking them. These days with catchup TV and everything else there are so many more ways of staying within the rules without having to make the "sacrifice" of not watching TV its become an almost mute question