Why Bother Buying A Tv License

[nailit]

when its full of repeats?
Havnt had a license for years, when the license people come knocking I tell them to get lost.
TV is now full of rubbish anyway.

[dannyk13]

If you get fined it can cost you up to £1,000.Is it worth it?

[Peter Pedant]

// Is it a legal requirement to have a licence - so by not having one does it become illegal?// islay

no islay you have to have a machine which is capable of getting tv
2% of population dont have one apparently ( tee vee I mean )

the loop hole of using a laptop to receive teevee on internet feed is being closed they say

thisis chadda bank thread not law ....

[Zacs-Master]

Is this you just showing off nailit? "Look at me everyone I'm a non conformist, aren't I cool"

[Islay]

Peter, OK so if you have a receiver (the OP has already stated that he has) Does that now become illegal? If so when he is caught does his previous history have a bearing in his fine or sentence? If he is on parole? Does getting caught without a licence and therefore possible breaking the law again make it all the more serious?

[ummmm]

I know someone taken to court for not having a license.

[Islay]

Ummmm, what was their penalty?

[ummmm]

Nothing as far as I can remember. I paid for one and that was that.

[gness]

Nailit......you make it sound as if those of us who do pay for a licence are mugs.....

I'm not......and I happily pay what I consider a bargain price for some excellent TV and some even more excellent radio.......x

[Peter Pedant]

dont know what happened tothem Islay - fine I think
no they arent fine - they were fined

I dont keep a tally of what happens to those without a licence ....
cut off their tuning knob hand ? Brand them with no-TVL on their foreheads ? - Make them watch all those repeats over and over again ?

[EDDIE51]

One way to legally not pay a TV licence would be to move to Belgium Holland or France, in the channel coast areas you can pick up UK terrestrial TV and you do not need a licence.
Just a comment but did you all know that the 'TV Detector' vans always were a con job?. They were just an empty van with a big fake antenna on the roof and the TV Detector sign in big letters on the side. They were intended to scare people into buying a licence. They would park outside an unlicensed address while the driver walked up and down the road with a clipboard. A second man was inside the van turning the antenna round.
They were very effective there was always a rush to buy TV licences when one had been round an area.

[tamborine]

Some cant risk a crminal record or lose their hard earned property via court proceedings.

[Peter Pedant]

agree Eddie
they all did it on addresses ( and those addresses without a licence )

altho in the court cases - the flicker of the tv on the walls thro the window stars heavily in evidence

this is clearly a light news day - I note 90 contributions on tee vee licences

[EDDIE51]

Even the BBC had to admit the TV detectors were fake
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/31/bbc-admits-that-tv-d.html

[cactusdriver]

It's just like the poll tax - if you've no good name to preserve or assets to lose what can the courts do, put people in jail at huge taxpayer expense?

[trt]

I suppose Gypsy's/travellers are the same, never pay but how many get fined?

[B00]

" dont keep a tally of what happens to those without a licence ....
cut off their tuning knob hand ? "

Oooo ouchy! Harsh!

;-)