-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Oakley wrote: | A laptop, however, definitely does have the battery within the case, so | a student living away from home could use the laptop to watch TV on | their parents' TV licence, provided they never watched TV with the mains | charger attached.
I know this thread now well and truly belongs on a TV licensing forum ... so apologies. I think that the "it has a mains supply but I don't use that I use batteries" is the same argument as "I have a TV but only use it for watching videos"? The TV licensing website strongly suggests that you would need a license for a laptop and that you indicates that you are unlikely to be covered by your parents' license - or are they trying to bend the rules in their own favour? "I haven't got a TV. I watch telly on my laptop. It makes no difference how you watch telly - whether it's on your laptop, PC or mobile phone or through a digital box, DVD recorder or good old-fashioned TV set - if you use any device to receive television programmes as they're being shown on TV, the law requires you to be covered by a licence. In exceptional circumstances you may be covered by your parents' TV Licence, but this is very rare." http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/students.jsp#link2 - -- Stephen O'Neill w: http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/ e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIKDB+J+Auntu1v4QRAnmZAJ43buGXjoEIhw2rrkM95tqvcNZZcgCfWccx MDX5EywsKpv1tf0x5bATdAc= =vUd5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
