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Only fair, if you watch BBC content you pay for it. Simples.
Annoys the fook out of me that every household is expected to pay £150 pa for a TV channel, whether you watch that channel or not.
Simple solution, make it a subscription channel, put iPlayer behind a paywall. I don't watch the dumbed down leftie bollox output they produce, I don't want to encourage the s by paying them. Eastenders FFS!
No other country in the World has to pay a license for a TV channel, it's absolutely ridiculous and in many ways, undemocratic.
No other country apart from Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Macedona, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Ghana, Mauritius, Namibia and South Africa has to pay a license for a TV channel, it's absolutely ridiculous and in many ways, undemocratic.
FTFY
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So how will they police it? At the moment if you have a google box that is capable of receiving live telly you have to fork over the licence fee. Will it be the case that anyone with an broadband connection will have to cough up (and what about mobile internet)?
I think they should focus more on playing Whack-A-Mole with the 30M+ people watching it through VPNs. Downton Abbey is particularly popular over the pond it seems..
I think they should focus more on playing Whack-A-Mole with the 30M+ people watching it through VPNs. Downton Abbey is particularly popular over the pond it seems..
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