TV Licensing

onomatopoeia99

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the Danish way, everyone that can receive programmes by D:R pays, so people with smartphones on mobile data contracts, people with internet connections at home, people with TVs etc etc.
Or the Italian way, where people with a mains electric connection pay by a flat rate levy on their electricity bill (and the Italian public service broadcaster RAI has adverts as well, and is rubbish compared to the BBC).

facade

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

She didn't allude to your ISP snitching you up, no, I thought of that as a way to enforce it, but she most certainly alluded to a "media licence". She is not at all happy that 400,000 people avoided the tax last year. (£63,000,000 lost)

Probably be added to the Council tax.

castle96

My query please......?

Gers

castle96 said:

Pl explain re 'verifyable email address'. I only have one/main, which I could verify, so that one would 'identify' me? If I set up another (how?), that would also identify me surely. Sorry too be a litle dim

chose another email provider - something like outlook (used to be hotmail) or gmail etc. No need to put in any real identification or username. Use a free one. Have an unusual username (freddiedogsareus for instance).

https://outlook.live.com/mail/about/index_en.html

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56256?hl=en-GB

cerebus

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the bbc simply starts showing ads just like every other channel and scrap the outdated and hated licence fee 

Op - apologies for hijacking your thread 

Op - the easiest way is to set up another email account such as google (I'm using account not address as I believe that is confusing you) using no identifiable info to set it up whatsoever and only using it to verify email accounts as and when you set up an account for anything 

This way you also keep spam away from your main email account too

RumRat

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the bbc simply starts showing ads just like every other channel and scrap the outdated and hated licence fee 

Op - apologies for hijacking your thread 

Op - the easiest way is to set up another email account such as google (I'm using account not address as I believe that is confusing you) using no identifiable info to set it up whatsoever and only using it to verify email accounts as and when you set up an account for anything 

This way you also keep spam away from your main email account too

Not sure I hate the fee more than the ads....Which is why I and many others pay for other services without them. Also the reason I record the other terrestrial channels, to fast forward through the ads.

cerebus

RumRat said:

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the bbc simply starts showing ads just like every other channel and scrap the outdated and hated licence fee 

Op - apologies for hijacking your thread 

Op - the easiest way is to set up another email account such as google (I'm using account not address as I believe that is confusing you) using no identifiable info to set it up whatsoever and only using it to verify email accounts as and when you set up an account for anything 

This way you also keep spam away from your main email account too

Not sure I hate the fee more than the ads....Which is why I and many others pay for other services without them. Also the reason I record the other terrestrial channels, to fast forward through the ads.

Ads make it free and like you say you can record and skip them - bit of a no brainer really (this is mse after all)

Given how there's now only 4 odd channels out of hundred ish that don't show ads , it's hardly much of a change to how you view a channel if the BBC were to goto an ad model and you save £159 every year (again this is mse after all)

RumRat

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the bbc simply starts showing ads just like every other channel and scrap the outdated and hated licence fee 

Op - apologies for hijacking your thread 

Op - the easiest way is to set up another email account such as google (I'm using account not address as I believe that is confusing you) using no identifiable info to set it up whatsoever and only using it to verify email accounts as and when you set up an account for anything 

This way you also keep spam away from your main email account too

Not sure I hate the fee more than the ads....Which is why I and many others pay for other services without them. Also the reason I record the other terrestrial channels, to fast forward through the ads.

Ads make it free and like you say you can record and skip them - bit of a no brainer really (this is mse after all)

Given how there's now only 4 odd channels out of hundred ish that don't show ads , it's hardly much of a change to how you view a channel if the BBC were to goto an ad model and you save £159 every year (again this is mse after all)

https://youtu.be/UsdtyuSmoXs?feature=shared

cerebus

RumRat said:

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the bbc simply starts showing ads just like every other channel and scrap the outdated and hated licence fee 

Op - apologies for hijacking your thread 

Op - the easiest way is to set up another email account such as google (I'm using account not address as I believe that is confusing you) using no identifiable info to set it up whatsoever and only using it to verify email accounts as and when you set up an account for anything 

This way you also keep spam away from your main email account too

Not sure I hate the fee more than the ads....Which is why I and many others pay for other services without them. Also the reason I record the other terrestrial channels, to fast forward through the ads.

Ads make it free and like you say you can record and skip them - bit of a no brainer really (this is mse after all)

Given how there's now only 4 odd channels out of hundred ish that don't show ads , it's hardly much of a change to how you view a channel if the BBC were to goto an ad model and you save £159 every year (again this is mse after all)

https://youtu.be/UsdtyuSmoXs?feature=shared

Ah just like every other channel that shows ads then!

RumRat

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

cerebus said:

RumRat said:

facade said:

I wouldn't worry.

Lucy Frazer was interviewed yesterday about the proposed massive rise in the licence fee (that Our Saviour Sunak is tipped to run his sword through and therefore deliver us from abject poverty- hooray, 3 cheers for Our Masters!!) and she was talking about recognising that "the way we consume media is changing".

sounds like a "media licence" is coming, a quick bit of legislation and your ISP will have to snitch you up if any digital media goes to your address....

  She didn't even allude to such nonsense in the interview.
Your ISP wouldn't necessarily know if any digital media was being received.
If they ditch the license fee then the best options for them would be to go either the German way (every household is taxed an amount toward PSB's). Or, the Swedish system (Levy a tax to everyone over 18 who pays income tax)....

Or the bbc simply starts showing ads just like every other channel and scrap the outdated and hated licence fee 

Op - apologies for hijacking your thread 

Op - the easiest way is to set up another email account such as google (I'm using account not address as I believe that is confusing you) using no identifiable info to set it up whatsoever and only using it to verify email accounts as and when you set up an account for anything 

This way you also keep spam away from your main email account too

Not sure I hate the fee more than the ads....Which is why I and many others pay for other services without them. Also the reason I record the other terrestrial channels, to fast forward through the ads.

Ads make it free and like you say you can record and skip them - bit of a no brainer really (this is mse after all)

Given how there's now only 4 odd channels out of hundred ish that don't show ads , it's hardly much of a change to how you view a channel if the BBC were to goto an ad model and you save £159 every year (again this is mse after all)

https://youtu.be/UsdtyuSmoXs?feature=shared

Ah just like every other channel that shows ads then!

Not sure how you come to that conclusion............But, hope you get better soon...