TV licensing spying on home internet usage

johnniegif

Tracking of IP addresses dished out by your ISP can be very difficult to prove, because unless you pay for a fixed IP address, most IP addresses are dynamically assigned each time your router restarts, or your IP session drops due to exchange/network maintenance etc. So in the the OP's situation, it would be difficult to enforce. Often Google et al will initially show a completely random location for your device, and this is often because the router's IP address has been allocated from someone else in a different area of the country.
I pay for a TV license - at the moment - because I value some of the BBC's output and their broadcasting network infrastructure - but if I were the OP, I'd not be fazed by the correspondence because it isn't your fault - or problem. 

Mickey666

IP addresses can certainly change but they are also time stamped, so not particularly difficult to trace if necessary.
But even a verified IP address can only be traced back to a physical device, not an actual person, hence my earlier question about WHO is actually responsible for paying for a TV licence?

Cornucopia

Mickey666 said:

IP addresses can certainly change but they are also time stamped, so not particularly difficult to trace if necessary.
But even a verified IP address can only be traced back to a physical device, not an actual person, hence my earlier question about WHO is actually responsible for paying for a TV licence?

Anyone can pay the Licence, and no one should undertake any activities that require a Licence without one.

Other than that, TV Licensing will prosecute the first adult they speak to who is willing to put their hands up in the case of evasion.  

There is no firm, fixed responsible individual in a household, though.

Mickey666

Of course anyone CAN pay the licence fee, but if there is no responsible individual in a household surely that means that the legal responsibility lies with the person who actually watches live TV or BBC iPlayer?  Thus, a householder should not be prosecuted if a, say, babysitter, watches live TV.   I’ve no doubt TVL would prosecute anyone ‘Willing to put their hands up’, but that’s not really the point is it?