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The BBC World Cup Broadband trap!

Includes licence fee debate from 'BBC News Continuity' (June 2006)

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HA
harshy Founding member
noggin posted:


The BBC is about providing content to licence fee payers - not about providing radio frequencies...


as long as the BBC don't start charging me to use my broadband, that's fine by me!
SP
Steve in Pudsey
This takes things into very muddy waters. You have to have a TV license if you use equipment *capable* of receiving television broadcasts, even if you don't use such broadcasts, eg a set exclusively used for watching material from a DVD player still has to be covered by a licence.

So by extension if I have a computer that is connected to the internet it is *capable* of receiving the streaming World Cup feed, so could be considered liable to the licence fee even if I don't watch the streaming feed?

noggin posted:
The BBC is about providing content to licence fee payers - not about providing radio frequencies...


But the licence fee *is* about radio frequencies, your licence is issued under the Wireless Telegraphy Act.

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