On 27/09/16 11:13, CJB wrote: > This appears to be a requirement for each individual viewer. Yet > aren't TV Licenses issued for households or families? Certainly a > password coupled with a License fee registration number would > required. Which raises the scenario of one License fee no. coupled to > multiple passwords - one for each member of a family.
My guess is that they will ask for name, address and email, possibly under penalty of perjury and with email validation during registration. No one is going to know, or be willing to look for, their licence number! They will presumably check if there is a licence at the address. If not, threatening letters and emails get sent. Why do anything more complicated than that? Of course, there will be a lot of fiction about checking IP addresses, about checking email registrations, etc (just like TV detector vans). Some people will certainly lie about their address but it is unlikely to be cost effective to actually follow up any further. Anyone determined enough to get free iPlayer access can tie them up in lots of costly lawyer correspondence about VPNs, the difference between the IP address and the viewing location, the presence of mains power, etc, etc. I will be surprised to see any case of iPlayer access without a licence ever getting to court. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
