MSE News: You'll need a TV licence to use iPlayer from 1 September this year

brewerdave

Anyone who purchases a TV licence @ £145+ pa just to watch the odd programme on I Player catch up on a tablet, is officially off their rocker!!:rotfl:
The chances of being caught are ZERO UNLESS you are a masochist and confess to the Crapita Gestapo!!:mad:

Cornucopia

It's going to be a real test of how the Public perceives the law and the BBC.

People will go one of three ways-

- Get a Licence
- Stop using iPlayer
- Breaking the Law

It's way too early to tell which way it will go, but I suspect that the BBC's hope of an extra £150m in revenue (over 1 million Licences) is woefully optimistic.

Not that the BBC's figures ever really make sense. Are there 1 million people presently exploiting the "iPlayer Loophole" or is it "less than 2%" as they have also claimed, which is half that figure?

Waller1975

Policing the IPlayer will prove difficult to say the least. Grabbing the IP address of users of the player will be useless. Only a court can make an ISP divulge the physical name and address of the individual(s) accessing the service. Lot's of legal work BBC.....

Anyone who funds the BBC by means of a licence should really do some research, and decide if they wish to continue funding their depravity.

How many BBC stars have been outed as !!!!!philes so far? Jimmy Savile (may he rot in hell) probably being the most high profile. His abuse was known amongst BBC circles for years, yet nothing was said or done about him. Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, etc. BBC past or present, hateful perverted !!!!!philes. All operating under the protective wing of the BBC?

Makes you wonder who will be exposed next from the wretched British Biased Corporation.

They are desperate to grab your cash, they gotta protect any other perverts that have been, or continue to, operate under the Corporations "respected" name. And that costs money!

Eastenders does not make the BeeB great.

Swipe

All catch up TV is crap anyway. I don't use any of them so it's business as usual as far as I am concerned. It just shows the arrogance of the BBC that they honestly believe that people will be rushing out to buy a TV licence so they can watch iplayer rather than save £145.50 and not watch it. Any people who have cancelled their licence within the last 12 months will get a shock if they do buy one when it gets backdated to the end of the quarter in which they cancelled.

almillar

Gary Glitter

What's he got to do with the BBC?!

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

No problem this morning.

The iPlayer worked fine for this http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07tl6yv/new-york-americas-busiest-city-episode-1

Scrap the regressive TV Tax

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Player on iPad worked!

No TV Licence needed.

Scrap the regressive TV Tax

SW17

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth wrote: »

Player on iPad worked!

No TV Licence needed.

Scrap the regressive TV Tax

Of course it worked, just as it is technically (but not legally) possible to watch live broadcast TV without a licence. The difference is that a licence is required now, so by watching catch-up on iPlayer without one you are breaking the law. It's hardly complicated.

Soem people choose to break the law every day (any law, not just this one). I'm sure people will continue to break this one, the change is that nobody will be able to exploit a loophole and claim they are consuming this content legally. Feel free to break the law, accepting that there are consequences if caught (however likely or unlikely that might be).

I can understand people objecting to the TV licence principle if they never consume any BBC services in the UK (TV, radio, websites), even though personally I'm happy with it. I don't understand how (or why) anyone can justify consuming BBC content and thinking they shouldn't have to pay for it. At best it's just a "something for nothing" attitude, though IMO they are just trying to rationalise theft.

Cornucopia

SW17 wrote: »

Soem people choose to break the law every day (any law, not just this one). I'm sure people will continue to break this one, the change is that nobody will be able to exploit a loophole and claim they are consuming this content legally. Feel free to break the law, accepting that there are consequences if caught (however likely or unlikely that might be).

There is already a loophole - download your content at a Licensed location and watch it anywhere.

I can understand people objecting to the TV licence principle if they never consume any BBC services in the UK (TV, radio, websites), even though personally I'm happy with it. I don't understand how (or why) anyone can justify consuming BBC content and thinking they shouldn't have to pay for it. At best it's just a "something for nothing" attitude, though IMO they are just trying to rationalise theft.

In reality, though, TV watching is such a mundane and benign activity that it really doesn't need State permission to do it. That's the anachronism of the TV Licence. What the fee is used for is a separate issue.

There maybe some people who want "something for nothing", but the vast majority of people who are legally Licence-free simply want a fair, free and open choice whether to have a Licence or not within the Law. The BBC's draconian and possibly unlawful tactics in enforcing the fee tend to detract from what might otherwise be a high moral ground position with regards to evasion.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

We were told the detector vans were armed and ready to detect those users on the iPlayer, ensuring they have a TV Tax certificate from September 1st.

I am waiting in dread as the iPlayer still works!

More con and bumf from the Bolshevik Broadcasting Commissariat . Join the resistance, and rip up your licence on 31st October 2016