TV licence

[Marvindodgers]

I'm not sure I'm understanding where all these people that go on about Netflix or Amazon Prime or Apple TV are saving any money by not paying the £12 licence fee? All of these services cost money to subscribe to as well?

I also don't understand the morality of freely using iPlayer, which was developed and financed by the BBC, whilst clearly stating that you don't pay your licence fee. Surely that is no different to stealing that content in the same way as illegally downloading music files or torrenting tv shows or movies off the net?

I'll happily stick with the BBC thanks for the great programmes they show on BBC Four and Two (even a few on BBC One) and the advert free nationwide & local radio channels that cover pretty much every musical preference.

[stuart313]

Google chrome cost money to develop but I still use it for free to browse the web.

[marshalla]

stuart313 said:

Google chrome cost money to develop but I still use it for free to browse the web.

And Google thanks you for all the marketing data you are providing to them.

[Promised Land]

Marvindodgers said:

I'm not sure I'm understanding where all these people that go on about Netflix or Amazon Prime or Apple TV are saving any money by not paying the £12 licence fee? All of these services cost money to subscribe to as well?
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But it's Your choice to pay for these other services whereas you have to pay the BBC tax whether you watch their channels or not.

Sky don't send you threatening letters every month if you don't subscribe to them, the BBC even have muppets on the end of phones calling you threatening you if you don't renew your licence.

Outdated system that hasn't moved on.

[Yazar]

marshalla said:

stuart313 said:

Google chrome cost money to develop but I still use it for free to browse the web.

And Google thanks you for all the marketing data you are providing to them.

Firefox ftw https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/desktop/

[SpeckledJim]

Marvindodgers said:

I also don't understand the morality of freely using iPlayer, which was developed and financed by the BBC, whilst clearly stating that you don't pay your licence fee. Surely that is no different to stealing that content in the same way as illegally downloading music files or torrenting tv shows or movies off the net?

We didn't write the rules, they did.

You don't need a license for iPlayer, so why volunteer a tax unnecessarily?

Do you volunteer for taxes that don't apply to you?

[dxg]

SpeckledJim said:

Marvindodgers said:

I also don't understand the morality of freely using iPlayer, which was developed and financed by the BBC, whilst clearly stating that you don't pay your licence fee. Surely that is no different to stealing that content in the same way as illegally downloading music files or torrenting tv shows or movies off the net?

We didn't write the rules, they did.

You don't need a license for iPlayer, so why volunteer a tax unnecessarily?

Do you volunteer for taxes that don't apply to you?

I don't pay the licence fee because I don't watch TV. Simply don't have the time or the inclination.

Every so often I poke around iPlayer to see if anything is worth watching, and it never is.

I buy the odd movie here and there on BlinkBox (no subscription and a pretty decent selection), buy the odd DVD every so often (movies just a couple of years old can be cheaper than a BlinkBox viewing...). I might on rare occasions torrent the odd thing.

All in, I'm in front of the TV for about an hour a week. Try it - it's liberating!

Anyway, because of all this a subscription model is the only thing that's fair, in my view.

[Motorrad]

Marvindodgers said:

I also don't understand the morality of freely using iPlayer, which was developed and financed by the BBC, whilst clearly stating that you don't pay your licence fee.

Morality and the BBC? Where would you even begin?

A more corrupt organisation you'd be pushed to find outside government. Hang on a minute......

Zero fks given here for listening to some of their Radio output without paying.