>tfw British Oi mum the gubment gonna discover our illegal

>>36462565

You need a license for your tv? That is fucking retarded.

>>36462565
OP can you explain what this letter is about? I am genially interested in the topic you started but I am not from the UK and thus I don't understand what this letter refers to.

did you not pay the cable bill or something? what's the issue here?

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>>36462565
Fellow non-licence paying britbong!

I got this one a couple of days ago, they've started using new phrases.

>>36462812

Not OP, but I also face the same issue>>36462828

Basically you have to pay $180 per year if you watch TV. Even if you don't, they will still try to make you pay, and send you threatening letters about every 2 weeks until you pay. I've been getting them for 4 years now.

>>36462698
>Money is then funneled into BBC
>BBC make shitty articles

we have enough of this shit on /tv/ m8

>tfw mum pays it because she believes the fear mongering

The BBC hires a 3rd party company to enforce the TV license.

Their employees work on commission so they try to use every scare mongering tactic in the book to get you to pay for it.

When my friend was in uni they had a tv license guy come round and try to tell him that he needed one to watch DVDs on his laptop and he just laughed in his face.

>>36462828
what fucking license are you guys talking about? pls explain to a non-britbong

>>36462950
You are supposed to pay for a license to watch shit TV

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>run anti-bbc/tv licence site
>notice bbc visit often in their ip range
>make a filtering rule and redirect all their ip to bbc/cuck porn

>>36462862
so there is no consequences then? non at all?

>>36462565
>Live in the US
>Can download all the BBC programmes I want without a license
Feels good living in the land of the free

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>>36462812

I'm not the OP but I'm from the UK and I can explain it. If you've got a TV in the UK and use it to watch live broadcasted programming from the likes of the BBC, you have to pay a TV licence by law. The TV licence helps fund the BBC to keep it ad-free and impartial. You need one per household.

Just owning a TV isn't enough to warrant paying the licence fee, for example, you could have a TV and be using it to watch YouTube and Netflix. In this case you wouldnt need a licence because you're not watching the big broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4.

For some daft reason the TV Licencing agency, which deals with all aspects TV licencing fee including collecting it, presumes everyone in the UK must be watching Live broadcasted TV from the big channels and will send you scary, threatening letters like these even if you're not a criminal. They range from ones like this to others threatening to take you to court in big, red capital letters. Sometimes even calling them up and telling them you don't watch live TV isn't enough and they'll continue to harass you.

If you don't watch live broadcasted TV you have absolutely no business with them and can ignore everything they send at you. If they send an inspector around to your door you are under no legal obligation to let them in to carry out an inspection or even answer the door, they have no legal power and are just there to scare you into paying the fee. Tell them to just piss off.

This is a joke like penis inspection day, right?

>>36463135
>This is a joke like penis inspection day, right?
It's not a joke.

>everyone memes about TV license despite not being legally required to pay it if you don't want him live tv
>Barely anyone memes about Germany having to pay it by law, regardless of whether they watch live TV or not.

>>36463123
>>36462862
thank you

Christ what ass-holes

>>36462828
this is some 1984 language, fucking lefty fascists

>>36463252
It's the same reason people meme about Britain being full of muzzies and refugees despite Germany taking in far more and having a vastly more cucked population in general

Brits can handle the banter. Krauts can't

>>36463335
Sounds more like Brits bitch while Krauts deal.

>>36462828
the language in that letter is creepy as fuck

>>36463363
>bitch
Brits are the masters of self-depreciating humor

>>36462565
do niggers and shitskins pay for the tv licence? or are white cucks (((their))) only target?

>>36463123

What if you do actually watch live broadcasted TV? How would they know? Would you infact be in trouble then?

>>36462698
Are you saying you don't have to pay to watch television? I'm not British but I thought that's a thing everywhere.

>American
>Fall over
>Wake up in hospital
>Broken arm
>Doctor walks over
>"That will be $7,999"
>He holds his hand out
>"Plus tip."

Great now my life is ruined and I gave that guy my last $20

Fuck sake

>>36463123
>The TV licence helps fund the BBC to keep it ad-free and impartial

except it isn't remotely impartial

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It's much worse in Austria. Even if you only use your TV for Youtube/Netflix you have to pay for the official broadcasting (ORF) here, which is about 25Euros/month. As long as you physicly own a tv you are forced to pay.

>>36462998
Why would you direct their IP to something they would enjoy?

>>36463839
Imagine needing a license to watch tv when it doesn't affect anyone or anything else like fishing, hunting, or driving a vehicle.

You need to pay a yearly fee if you own a TV, Sweden has the same thing.

What the fuck I thought this was just a /pol/ and /int/ meme.

>>36462828
lol the same shit happens in germany with what was once called the GEZ but as far as I'm aware they don't use that kind of orwellian language (methods are the same however)

fucking incredible what these scumbag institutions get away with in both countries

but still glad your surveillance loving government brexited itself

>>36464192
oh yeah what is really shitty is in germany they did away with needing to have a TV device at all

that's right every german who heads a 'household' (which can also mean he lives by himself) has to pay for a tv license regardless of whether he actually uses TV or not and the government made this change because nobody could actually check whether you have a TV for every person

this country is so done

>>36464042
So you're telling me if I buy a TV to use as a computer monitor, I have to pay the Austrian gobermint 25 of my bongdollers a gregorian month?

>>36462565
>>36462828
Had those before, they don't do anything. You don't have to let them in on the off chance they do turn up.

>>36462912
>>that he needed one to watch DVDs

I had one tell me this once. Said I needed a license since the DVDs I had are of programs that had been shown on TV therefore count as recorded shows. Also claimed he needed to see my computer/laptop/phone history to make sure I'd not been watching their channels

>>36465123
what a bunch of scumbags

>>36463839

Well, no I don't. I mean I have to pay if I wanted cable sure. But I don't have to get a license so I can watch tv. If I stopped paying they would just take away those programs with cable. But not threat me to go to court because I don't have license or something.

>>36464192

What? No you don't, I don't have a license of one single tv at my home.

I have a bbc but I don't need a license for it ;)

>>36463797
They used to have adverts showing guys in vans with 50s scifi style detector guns, basically implying they could detect live TV being watched, but the truth is they have no idea

Unless you pay a subscription for cable or satellite TV. Of course, in theory they could go to your ISP and check whether you've been watching live shows on iplayer or whatever.

>>36463797
They've got powers now that let them see who has a satellite or cable tv subscription plan but other than peering through your window they have no idea.

That's why I live in America
>no weekly refugee attacks
>no jail time for watching tv
>allowed freedom of speech
>birthrate for white people above 1.0