On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:49:04 +0100, Dom wrote in message <4f852960.5040...@rpdom.net>:
> On 11/04/12 07:09, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On 10/04/12 22:24, Lisi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 10 April 2012 21:50:44 Sian Mountbatten wrote: > >>> I have decided to get a USB TV tuner so that I can use it with my > >>> sid(uction) box. I am in the UK. Will I need a TV licence? > >> I think so. But I also believe that you can get round it by > >> watching iPlayer > >> etc. over the internet. IANL of course! > > Unfortunately you can't. You still need a TV licence to watch via > > iPlayer. It says so on the BBC web site. > > > > It is true that you need a TV licence to watch programmes that are > currently being broadcast ("as the programmes are being broadcast, > simulcast or otherwise made available by the BBC on television"). > > However, programmes that were are not being broadcast at the time may > be watched, in the UK only, without a TV licence, for as long as they > are available on iplayer. The BBC would like to close this loophole. > ..what happens if e.g. Sian creates her own TV broadcasts, e.g. by putting a camera and a TV transmitter aboard a R/C model aircraft, FPV style, but specifically to show common TV watchers her own version of e.g. life in the communities around Mount Battenberg? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120411184845.733ee...@nb6.lan