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On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 07:04:55AM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > I have a couple of friends without TV licenses (because they > genuinely have no interest in TV) - the letters and visits they get > are shocking. The tactics used amount to harassment (a common > defence used to get them to stop) For what it's worth: we never owned a TV while we lived in the UK. At both addresses we did receive letters from TV Licensing, whom I then contacted and they said it was all fine and we never heard anything from them afterwards. It always stroke me as odd that I wasn't allowed to watch BBC live streams of football, but was allowed to watch the same match on a foreign site through a VPN, and also was allowed to watch it on that same laptop had I been at work. Even more odd was the fact that you got a discount if you only had a black-and-white TV. Much as I was happy to save myself the 100 quid or so a year, it seemed like a pretty outdated system, from a time when TVs were much less common (and probably something mainly used by the relatively well off) and the BBC didn't do much else. I always did use (and still do, now that I left the country) the BBC website and many of its podcasts. Martijn.
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