I tried to forment a war against the BBC (Off-Topic)

by kapowaz, Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 13:05 (4006 days ago) @ scarab

If your apparatus is CAPABLE of receiving or recording then you are liable and will be fined if you don't have a license. You don't have to be caught watching - they just need to prove that you could have watched. The wording on the law was: set up to receive or record broadcast tv signals.

A few years back (okay, maybe 12 years back) I didn't own a TV and I played console videogames through a Hauppauge TV tuner card. The TV licensing people wrote to me, a very threatening-worded letter implying I was a ne'er do well and I would be fined. I rang them and said I didn't use it to watch/record TV (the truth; I had no aerial) and they kind of just went "Oh, ok then."

Times have probably changed though! Those were simpler times for sure.

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Saw this on youtube - disturbing but, ultimately, funny - scarab, 2013-12-10, 06:42
- Really? - Grizzlei, 2013-12-10, 07:04
  - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - scarab, 2013-12-10, 07:44
    - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - MrPadraig08, 2013-12-10, 08:01
    - Totally forgot to mention at the time but I saw Dr Who in 3D - scarab, 2013-12-10, 08:37
      - The music! The tears! Stahp! - Chewbaccawakka, 2013-12-11, 17:15
    - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - stabbim, 2013-12-10, 08:50
      - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - scarab, 2013-12-10, 09:10
        
        I tried to forment a war against the BBC - Jillybean, 2013-12-14, 13:47
    - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - Zeouterlimits, 2013-12-10, 13:48
      - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - kidtsunami, 2013-12-11, 02:23
    - This is baffling to me. - kapowaz, 2013-12-10, 14:55
      - There was a time when I didn't watch any broadcast TV. - scarab, 2013-12-10, 22:58
        
        There was a time when I saw everyone else as quite mad. - scarab, 2013-12-10, 23:08
        
        There was a time when I didn't watch any broadcast TV. - kapowaz, 2013-12-11, 09:02
    - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - Quirel, 2013-12-10, 20:28
      - I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so. - scarab, 2013-12-10, 23:02
      - I tried to forment a war against the BBC - kapowaz, 2013-12-11, 09:10
        
        I tried to forment a war against the BBC - scarab, 2013-12-11, 11:03
        
        I tried to forment a war against the BBC - kapowaz, 2013-12-11, 13:05
- Saw this on youtube - disturbing but, ultimately, funny - MrPadraig08, 2013-12-10, 08:03
- Saw this on youtube - disturbing but, ultimately, funny - stabbim, 2013-12-10, 08:51
  - Saw this on youtube - disturbing but, ultimately, funny - scarab, 2013-12-10, 09:18
- This is why I read DBO - Kermit, 2013-12-11, 05:47
  - If u don't want to read off topic then don't read off topics - scarab, 2013-12-11, 06:36
    - If u don't want to read off topic then don't read off topics - Kermit, 2013-12-11, 07:17
      - Are you the post police? - scarab, 2013-12-11, 10:25
        
        Let's not have a row! :) - SonofMacPhisto, 2013-12-11, 10:28
        
        Let's not have a row! :) - Kermit, 2013-12-11, 12:21
        
        Let's not have a row! :) - SonofMacPhisto, 2013-12-11, 12:25
        
        Kerm is the law - MrPadraig08, 2013-12-11, 13:55
        
        Kerm is the law - Kermit, 2013-12-11, 14:38
        
        You won't fuck around no more - scarab, 2013-12-11, 14:40
        
        You won't fuck around no more - Kermit, 2013-12-11, 14:48
        
        And I found the man himself on youtube :-) - scarab, 2013-12-11, 14:58
        
        Man I can't wait for all the Breaking Ben Destiny montages - MrPadraig08, 2013-12-11, 21:06
        
        Heh... - bluerunner, 2013-12-11, 18:50
        
        You also missed out on the threesome. - scarab, 2013-12-11, 21:54

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