• BBC wants you to pay TV licence fee even if you don’t own a set
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A fucking TV licence? Well that fills the amount of bullshit required to be added on the do not move to list.
[QUOTE=LVL FACTORY;44462265]A fucking TV licence? Well that fills the amount of bullshit required to be added on the do not move to list.[/QUOTE] [quote]Serbia[edit] Licence fees in Serbia are bundled together with electricity bills and collected on a monthly basis. There have been increasing indications that the Government of Serbia is considering the temporary cessation of the licence fee until a more effective financing solution is found.[10] However, as of 28 August 2013 this step has yet to be realized.[/quote] You just don't know you're being taxed.
[QUOTE=The mouse;44459361][URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10746109/BBC-wants-you-to-pay-TV-licence-fee-even-if-you-dont-own-a-set-as-shows-go-on-iPlayer-for-longer.html"]Source[/URL] If the BBC wants to put stuff on iplayer for longer fine, but don't charge us anyway without even asking us whether we wanted it.[/QUOTE] They know TV is on the way out, better get all the money they can out of it while they still can. Seriously, why even bother with TV anymore? You want to watch something, you watch it on their schedule. Then when you do watch something, for every hour, there's 17 minutes of interruptions scattered through the show. Computer? Watch what you want, when you want, interruption free. You can't compete with that, and you certainly aren't offering incentives by charging people that don't even own a TV, ya assholes. I really thought when it came to money the UK was far less greedy than the USA. But even the USA doesn't charge you for NOT owning something
[QUOTE=meppers;44460494]How does it feel knowing Americans get to watch BBC programming for free through the BBC America channel?[/QUOTE] I think you're forgetting the part where you have to subscribe to a cable company to get it, and you have to pay for a secondary channel bundle on top of that because it doesn't come in the basic cable deal. At least that's how it is where I am.
[QUOTE=markg06;44462480]You just don't know you're being taxed.[/QUOTE] Well, it sounds like it's a licence for having a TV anyway
[QUOTE=frozensoda;44461990]The idea of paying a license fee to use a service sounds ridiculous to me. Maybe it's just because I'm American. They make money from advertisements, that's how TV works here anyway. It seems like they are charging you to be allowed to generate profit for them. It makes no sense to me.[/QUOTE] The license fee is just for BBC TV and Radio channels, they have no advertisement. Not for other, commercial channels. Here's a list of all the channels: [url]http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/what-does-your-licence-fee-pay-for-top13/[/url]
Any Brits have some of those funny videos people take of the BBC goofs coming to their door trying to convince them to pay? [editline]5th April 2014[/editline] got some me self [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHRhXW1hno[/media]
[QUOTE=Uber|nooB;44460381]the letters you get at student halls in unis are bullshit as well they always send them at the start of each year when everybody moves in, and the way they are wording seems to imply that you need to pay for a TV license if you just own a laptop, because a laptop is capable of letting you watch TV but the funny thing is that they never actually say that outright, because they know it's not true dick move on their part because it's basically an attempt to scare students who just moved out of home or moved here from abroad into paying for a TV license when they don't need to [editline]5th April 2014[/editline] oh and for student halls they also say that each room counts as a separate residence, so [I]everyone[/I] has to get a license apparently[/QUOTE] Luckily, I am a right-wing lunatic, and therefore was already fairly knowledgeable about the Argentine pinko champagne socialist BBC's telly tax before I arrived at University. Things like [url=http://www.thurrockgazette.co.uk/news/9867463.Man_wins_TV_licence_battle/?ref=twtrec]falsifying evidence[/url] and the infamous [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvritKhT3j8]detector vans[/url] that are actually just empty vans with a couple of goons with cameras in. Oh, and the fee is collected by a private company (Capita) who pay their men on commission. Here's Jim Bowen [video=youtube;3Kai30ln400]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kai30ln400[/video] [editline]5th April 2014[/editline] Oh, and not paying the fee is a criminal offence and leads to a criminal record, whilst not paying utility bills is just a civil case.
This sounds like the Rundfunkbeitragsstaatsvertrag in germany. Yeah, it is as scary as it sounds. Even if you don´t have a TV, radio or computer at your flat, you have to pay for it. Funny thing is, a few days ago, it was declared as unconstitutional, because of the right to unbiased information (thanks hitler for that. no really, this isnt meant sarcastic at all, becuase of him, and his propaganda machine, every medium nowadays has to be viewed as how much propaganda is transmitted through it, which is a pretty complex thing to do, you got to look how many supporters said medium has by politicians etc... and thinking back, in nazi germany, people had to pay for the states propaganda as some kind of national stability tool). I wish people would rally together to oppose such things. But it seems all the people are too busy watching shitty TV.
This shit needs to die out
[QUOTE=The freeman;44461245]I'm not sure how new episodes are edited, but reruns will be edited to have commercials, usually by taking out the news or some segment about a car. It's still about 50 times better than Top Gear US though.[/QUOTE] uh i don't know if you're watching it live when they come out but I have verizon fios and the new episodes show up on-demand at the end of every week there's a commercial at the halfway point of every episode and that's it, they don't cut any segments out
Just do what Australia does with the ABC and SBS and include them in government tax , we used to have that TV licence garbage when the ABC was first formed and the government scratched it when the British model wasn't doing justice I mean that'll make the BBC possible of government tax reductions but then the public always has the national broadcaster by their side [editline]6th April 2014[/editline] I'm fairly sure both new Zealand and Canada do what Australia does with the national broadcaster
[QUOTE=Impact1986;44464255]This sounds like the Rundfunkbeitragsstaatsvertrag in germany. Yeah, it is as scary as it sounds. Even if you don´t have a TV, radio or computer at your flat, you have to pay for it. Funny thing is, a few days ago, it was declared as unconstitutional, because of the right to unbiased information (thanks hitler for that. no really, this isnt meant sarcastic at all, becuase of him, and his propaganda machine, every medium nowadays has to be viewed as how much propaganda is transmitted through it, which is a pretty complex thing to do, you got to look how many supporters said medium has by politicians etc... and thinking back, in nazi germany, people had to pay for the states propaganda as some kind of national stability tool). I wish people would rally together to oppose such things. But it seems all the people are too busy watching shitty TV.[/QUOTE] that's fucking genius, propaganda laws. to show you how outdated the license fee is here, there's an option to pay for a reduced price for a black and white tv
Since blind people who own a TV must pay the TV licence, I guess that means if this is introduced blind people who don't even own a TV will have to pay for a TV licence.
[QUOTE=Ripmax;44470184]Since blind people who own a TV must pay the TV licence, I guess that means if this is introduced blind people who don't even own a TV will have to pay for a TV licence.[/QUOTE] it doesnt matter if they're blind or not, if you dont own a tv to get live tv you shouldnt pay regardless
[QUOTE=SataniX;44460599]Personally, I feel like you guys need something to balance out how shitty the cable companies you have there are.[/QUOTE] I do: Netflix and a PS3.
This is funny because in Denmark you have to pay a license even if you don't own a set, but if you have a smart phone, a PC, or any other device that can connect to the internet with speeds greater than a 56k modem, you have to pay a TV license fee. Additionally, you used to have to pay this license fee (I believe it's called a media license) even if you just owned a radio, but they recently changed that so that if you ONLY own a radio and NONE of the above, then you're not required to pay the media license. To top that off though, it doesn't matter if the device actually IS connected to the internet. Even if your phone plan doesn't have mobile network included, or you never use it, if it technically CAN do it, you have to pay.
fun fact, in the dark past of the UK there were licences for owning a radio and a tv.
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