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TV Licensing - Do I Need to Remove Antenna Cables from room?
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Cornucopia said:If you already have reasonable broadband, like most of us here will, then the additional cost of viewing commercial catch-up services from ITV, C4, C5 and UKTV is £0. You can't get better value than that.0
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House_Martin said:I can tape what I want for £00
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House_Martin said:Cornucopia is the guy to answer that about BBC subscriptions but possibly if that happened then ITV would follow suit and we would all end up paying more.0
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House_Martin said:Hopefully the BBC can find a way to trap the fiddlers without contravening their "human rights " lol0
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House_Martin said:I marvel about how many people are dragged to a Magistrates for tv licence fiddling (14500 a year approx ) to , hopefully get a criminal record due to the excellent hard working Capita men.
Maybe it's because, many of the unlicensed addresses are in fact LLF.0 -
Cornucopia said:According to BBC figures (which have some caveats) they estimate "evasion" to be as high as 7%, or around 1.9m households.0
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Cornucopia said:
Also "Bluster" means something quite specific - which is essentially glossing over legal details to obtain an unfair advantage using misleading, overbearing or ambiguous language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-ygimvRkA
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House_Martin said:Personally I think you should drop the word "legal " from the moniker and just make it LF.
LF describes an address which does not have a TV Licence, and LLF describes an address which does not have a TV Licence, because they do not legally require one.
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House_Martin said:and that is a fact that already 1.9 million are taking advantage of.0
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Bedsit_Bob said:Cornucopia said:
Also "Bluster" means something quite specific - which is essentially glossing over legal details to obtain an unfair advantage using misleading, overbearing or ambiguous language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb-ygimvRkA
From a purely technical POV, I would say that this approach falls short of the principle of implied right of access - which is that a visitor states their business and allows the householder discretion over whether the conversation continues. Without that implied right, he is trespassing. He is also trespassing when he remains on the property after being invited to leave.
I can understand the gambit in that TV Licensing staff no doubt get short shrift at some/many addresses as soon as they announce where they are from. However, the inflexibility of the approach is clear to see in that video, where TVL denied themselves the opportunity to engage with a resident of an address "of interest" by being dogmatic. I don't buy the Data Protection excuse - I think this is just bluster.0
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