Should there be a compulsory Netflix licence?

westernpromise

I pay I think about £12 a month for the Netflix package that allows 4 users, 4KHD, and you can watch from your laptop.

It would be a lot better for me if everybody who owns a TV were forced to buy a Netflix subscription as well. My subscription would fall and everyone would then get to enjoy the benefits that I enjoy, such as no ads and programmes I like to watch. The programmes are all very good and so everyone else would enjoy them as well, and with a guaranteed income of £ 3 billion or so (= fifty trillion if you're AG47), Netflix wouldn't have to worry about tawdry commercial considerations. So it could employ Mel and Sue as presenters, for example, confident of getting paid even when nobody watches.

It's a winner. After Netflix licences, I'd like there to be Classic Cars licenses, whereby everybody who goes into a newsagent pays £15 a year and gets a free copy of Classic Cars magazine.

Barny1979

Nice fishing post, B+

MEM62

westernpromise wrote: »

It would be a lot better for me if everybody who owns a TV were forced to buy a Netflix subscription as well.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Barny1979

westernpromise wrote: »

It would be a lot better for me if everybody who owns a TV were forced to buy a Netflix subscription as well.

What if they don't have a smart tv, should the money brought in from the compulsory license be used to gift them a 4K Smart UHD TV?

phillw

If netflix aren't paying UK tax then I'd say there is a very strong argument for subscribers to have to pay some form of license fee.

I have no idea if that is the case or not.

I don't see how you could make it mandatory though, bearing in mind netflix isn't even a british company.

Malthusian

The only problem with this proposal is that even the BBC manages to produce better material than the straight-to-video absolute garbage on Netflix.

The BBC produces just enough quality stuff that appeals to every demographic to make the population as a whole resistant to the idea of abolishing it.

movilogo

No, better to scrap TV license instead.

Herzlos

movilogo wrote: »

No, better to scrap TV license instead.

I think if there's any viable way to deny BBC access to anyone without a license, then it'd change pretty quickly.

Zero_Sum

movilogo wrote: »

No, better to scrap TV license instead.

But keep the licence

ruperts

Don't forget that anyone wishing to watch competing services such as Amazon prime should also have to pay for the Netflix license and then the individual additional subscription fees on top.

ruperts

Malthusian wrote: »

the population as a whole [are] resistant to the idea of abolishing it.

Source for this claim?

I've seen very little resistance to the idea of abolishing it myself, especially among under-40's who are increasingly going without.