TV Licences?

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I’m a broadcast TV viewer. Mrs Anarchist has the TV on pretty much all day, which is s bit annoying.

Most of my viewing is done on a PVR. I usually watch series towards the end of the run so that I don’t have to wait a week between episodes. It’s not always possible on demand because sometimes the first episode is removed before I want to start watching.

I also watch Amazon Prime Video and have an on off relationship with Netflix. I will subscribe to Netflix for a few months and then unsubscribe until they eventually offer another free trial.

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The TV licence is an anachronism.

I don’t think there is any real political will to change it, but the roll it’s don’t make sense within the UK and there are millions of people watching BBC programming illegally in other countries.

I guess that ad long as it brings in sufficient money it won’t be changed.

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I’m not sure it meets the criteria for theft. Just like you can’t steal electricity. It’s more along the lines of abstraction.

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You can’t? [needless extra characters]

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Course you can, I know people that have done it also how do cannabis grows get their power?

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It will go at some point…

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Nope. You can’t steal electricity. The offence is Abstracting Electricity.

They abstract the electricity :wink:

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Cannabis growers just pay their bill on time. Energy companies are more than happy for you to use as much power as you can and won’t do anything unless you’re abstracting the power…

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Not the big ones they just bypass the meter.

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I wonder if they pay for the TV Licence?

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If not stealing why called theft?

https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/energy-explained/lauren-bravo-energy-theft

Also Lauren is fit #JustSaying

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Yeah, you’re probably right. I don’t have that much knowledge on the subject

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Would I not :thinking:

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You can steal gas but not electricity. You abstract electricity. It’s a legal thing.

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Reminds me of when I worked for Post Office Telephones. Engineers who were caught fiddling their own meters (a trivially easy thing to do at the time) were charged with abstracting electricity.

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Yep. That’s the correct offence under The Theft Act 1968.

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I get all my entertainment from Youtube, Netflix, Spotify, and some pirated movies (when they aren’t available on the aforementioned sources) so no TV license for me. No TV even.

Also, just curious, does the TV license apply to any broadcasted TV content or only content broadcasted by the BBC? Or only by an UK entity? What happens if I watch a foreign channel? Or a live stream (gaming for example)? Do those still require a TV license? Theoretically they are all “broadcasted TV”.

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Only content from the BBC