You don’t need a TV Licence to watch on-demand services, like those on YouTube. However, some television websites – like iPlayer and ITV Player – offer live TV as well as on-demand TV. If anyone on your premises watches live TV, they’ll need to be covered by a TV Licence.
If your address doesn't have a paid TV licence on record Stuey they hound you to death with letters. I once went 10 years without a TV and there are only so many ways you can reply politely to them to say you haven't got a TV!
As baldric mentions if you thinking of watching live tv on the computer via BBC i player or ITV player then yes you would need one BUT if you watch programmes, say an hour later than broadcast, then you dont need a licence at all and can watch what you like on the catch up on demand service. Listening to radio doesn't require a licence.
//Once you do this they only write to you once every 2 years to check you still do not need one,//
They write to me every 2 years EDDIE, and every 2 years I tell them that they can check on me if they show wish and that I am indeed viewieng live tv but its up to them to prove it. They have no right of way into my flat.
//Do they not keep sending people to knock on your door?// They knocked once years ago and I told them they werent snooping around my home so dont bother coming back. They tried their best to get into my home but I knew that they didnt have any rights in law to access my home. Havnt been back since.