TV Licence £1,000 fine warning for millions of Netflix viewers
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/24488723.bbc-tv-licence-netflix-viewers-issued-1-000-fine-warning/
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TV Licence £1,000 fine warning for millions of Netflix viewers
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/24488723.bbc-tv-licence-netflix-viewers-issued-1-000-fine-warning/
Posted by Fox_9810
34 Comments
Don’t fall victim to TV licensing – don’t open the door to them, don’t talk with them, don’t get a criminal record.
Saving you a click.
As Netflix are now branching out into live content (specifically the Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson fight) you technically require a TV Licence for that or any other Live content Netflix does in the future.
How does live content on Netflix differ to live content on YouTube? I’m not sure why I’d need a license for netflix but not youtube (excluding where tv channels live stream to youtube, such as sky news, I know I’d need a license for that)?
Absolutely archaic tax that needs removed. People should not require a tv license to watch anything out with the BBC.
You do need a TV Licence if you:
* watch or record live TV on any channel or service
* use BBC iPlayer
If you do neither. Ignore the threatening letters as they’re mostly used to scare. If one person does knock. Don’t answer/ close the door and don’t say anything to them. It’s on them to prove it
Dont let them enter the property. My elderly neighbour let one in to prove she had a licence. The TV Licence man robbed her late husband watch.
A special little tax is the least efficient way to fund anything. Would you want separate taxes, to be paid in different ways, for police, bins, road maintenance, social care, the army, NHS, nuclear submarines etc etc? No.
Does “live content” mean that I need a TV licence if I were to watch a Twitch stream?
I never watch live TV and even if all of my subscription services (the very few I have) all start offering live TV I won’t pay for it. It’s bad enough they hassle me every other year to tell them once again I don’t need a licence and I just ignore it until my wife gets tired of seeing the letters and responds for me.
Tv licensing are just legitimized scammers. I don’t have a TV license due to being abroad for years and not being allowed to watch BBC thanks to their over protective licensing model, meant that I have been using various streaming services for years. When I returned, I didn’t get a license because I absolutely don’t watch any BBC or anything that fits into their chargeable schedule, and so they started to harass me with shitty letters, addressed to occupier. In the end I hit them up with the fact that their letters where unwarranted and unjustified, based on zero facts and that it was causing problems with my autism and adhd. They removed me from what ever the shitty list that they work from… If they ever come back my soliciter is going to have a proper go at them… I’m well up for them to try. Wankers..
It’s getting trickier now that streaming services are all integrating ‘live’ content into their platforms including YouTube.
Don’t interact with them.
The Government are going to have to modernise this law soon though.
Cmon, there is not going to be millions of people watchin paul v tyson
Will the fine money fund the salaries of pedophiles?
This means nothing. The fact that one has Netflix does not warrant a license. You only need a license if you watch TV live as it’s being broadcast.
They’d have to prove you do watch it live and that’s impossible.
You could have aerials, TV boxes etc. It doesn’t matter.
They have to prove you watch live TV. Simple.
Imagine getting fined £1000 and potentially getting a criminal record, for watching a service you’re already paying for once, while the BBC is paying ~£500k a year to paedophiles.
Ah, so a non-live service decided to serve live service and now tv license vultures want to extort us whether we use that part of a service or not.
They can fuck right off.
Have to pay Huw Edwards’ salary if you want to watch Stranger Things mate.
Seems that the U.K. government has designed your life to have every fucking penny you have extracted bar a few scraps to let you live a meagre existence.
Looking forward to the Labour tax increases to fund the next wave of illegal immigrants that they’ll do nothing to stop.
The crazy thing is it doesn’t have to be this way! We just let them fuck us over at every turn because apparently it’s good for us. There is more than enough for us all to lead a good life. You are being kept in your little box.
Never bought a licence and never will. Their letters will continue to be thrown straight in the bin, and any attempts to “inspect” will continue to be ignored. All I need is my VPN
You’re paying to watch BBC. You’re not given the option to not have BBC. Last time I checked, that’s called extortion.
The BBC needs to do away with this. When they were the only broadcaster, it made sense but now that there’s so much competition, you’re paying a hefty tax to cover the minority of the service
The license fee is no longer tenable, but for technological reasons and not all the spurious stuff pushed by those who have a political axe to grind. The government should still put some funding towards a state broadcaster though.
I’ve never had a tv licence. I will occasionally stream the live snooker world championships but there no way they will catch me on that. Just tell them you don’t require one and tell them to jog on when/if they come to the door.
If they ever knock on your door, the only thing you should say is “I revoke your implied right of access”
How the hell are they still allowed to force people to pay them to watch content that has NOTHING to do with them is absurd, total piss take.
Oh no, the useless goons will send more letters. How awful. Unless they manage to strongarm Netflix and chances are, Netflix will tell them to fuck off, they have no way of enforcing it.
It’s an outdated system and the BBC wastes the money on paying it’s talent too much.
Just remember that the inspectors are basically vampires.
They can only come in if you invite them.
Christ alive, they know live streaming has been a thing for about a decade at this point.
Just scrap the TV licence and make the BBC a competitive subscription service.
People watching Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson should be fined and prosecuted just for wasting their own time.
Live on Netflix doesn’t necessarily mean Live TV.
If it’s not being broadcast on any ‘TV’ service at the same time, it’s not live “TV” (just via Netflix).
Imagine if you needed to pay for a shopping license in order to shop anywhere, but the proceeds exclusively went to tesco regardless of which shops you actually visit. It’s bonkers.
I’d also argue that the ‘positives’ of having a public broadcaster is outweighed by the negatives of the harassment and fines the public endure for simply trying to watch a TV services that they’re already paying for.
The people who bootlick for the BBC are welcome to continue paying for their ‘unbiased’ news and period dramas themselves, but there’s no need to force everyone else to pay for it. It’s an archaic and unfair funding model that needs to die.
I don’t understand how they think they are entitled to our money for using a service they have nothing to do with?
My mother moved out of her house and into a care home. I came back to the house six months later as an executor. The string of scary TV licensing letters were hilarious. They made it sound like they were one step away from calling the bailiffs and were 100% sure someone was watching live TV in the house even though the HOUSE HAD BEEN EMPTY FOR SIX MONTHS. it’s just systematic shit slinging at every single door until something sticks.
I refuse to pay them since the whole Jimmy Savile, Rolf Harris, Hugh thing, and now its just poor service and too damn woke!
Also full of entitled out of touch wierd grammar school wankers.
Last guy that turned up and asked questions , I just looked him straight and mentioned the whole Jimmy Savile pedo ring shit, and he soon ran off when I said no I aint funding that.
I am not supporting the fucking BBC and its pedophiles