Do I need to inform that I don't need a TV licence?

Cornucopia

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81999480#Comment_81999480

There isn't enough detail yet to know what workaround might be possible and/or legal.

My "smart money bet" is that there will be no co-operation from Netflix and Amazon mandated or offered, and any enforcement will be as now - confession based.

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81999792#Comment_81999792

Looks like the abbreviations have done me over again.

"Just Google It"

ok then…

The Vampire Lestat

 (TVL) lore, the second book in Anne Rice's 

Vampire Chronicles

, 

focuses on Lestat de Lioncourt's origin, transforming him from a villain into a rockstar protagonist

. It explores his human life, tragic love with Nicolas, force-turning by the mad vampire Magnus, and his early, tumultuous relationship with Armand

mta999

unless eg Netflix handover a list of subscribers there is no way the BBC can find out if you are watching Netflix (unless your isp tracks your connections and reports to BBC)

oldernonethewiser

If he does understand he is remarkably poor at explaining it.

Wonder why he gets "hounded"?

I get letters from TVL every month but they just go in the recycling.

Cornucopia

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81999991#Comment_81999991

The law is written in an (IMHO) overly complicated way, and he uses that as a starting position, whereas e.g. Chili Jon Carne uses TVL's communications as the starting point as they are much more straightforward.

I don't think he's being "hounded" - I don't think he's ever said that. More like he takes a lawyerly view of what the letters say and finds objectionable parts of them to talk about.

I think he's yet to see the letters as a whole as anything other than official communication, despite them being obviously misleading, and unnecessarily threatening and harassing.

oldernonethewiser

To be fair the linked video is just to generate clicks as it is, currently, all speculative.

Certain media outlets will have a field day with it though.

Detail_Merchant

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81999706#Comment_81999706

I click on it and nothing happens - sounds like it works for other people though, so maybe an issue at my end (using Chrome on a Windows 11 laptop, no unusual browser add-ins, so not sure what)

B0bbyEwing

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81999955#Comment_81999955

So how do they find whether you're watching the BBC illegally then?

The big fella that came knocking on my door after I cancelled my licence wanted to come in & see if I had anything that allowed me to watch illegally without a licence.

Well of course I do. I have a TV, a phone, a computer. Does that mean I am or am not though?

Also curious as to whether watching live TV / iPlayer with a VPN activated would make a difference.

mta999

They find out that you are watching BBC illegally by coming to the door and asking you

With iPlayer one way is if you use an email address to tell them you don't need a license and use the same email address to log onto iPlayer - otherwise they cannot

Cornucopia

The BBC's position on this doesn't entirely make sense (though it possibly reflects the reality).

They claim that £1bn of revenue is at stake, which equates to 6m unlicensed households. At the same time, they are prosecuting 25,000 people for evasion in recent years.

That's a prosecution rate of 0.4% and yet the process is supposedly effective and efficient.

The iPlayer emails are only a warning because the process that generates them doesn't provide robust evidence of evasion and easily gives false positives.