
By Andy McCue
Published: Friday 09 June 2006
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It isn't the BBC, it's the TV Licencing Authority.
Ignoring the debate about how the BBC is funded, read the article properly: it's the TV Licencing Authority that are making the fuss.
The TVLA are in general heavy-handed & thugish in the way they go about their business. When I responded to their demands for payment by pointing out that I don't have a TV in the property (or any form of computer based tuner) their reply basically translated as "Thanks for telling us you don't own a TV. We don't believe you. The detector team will call to your property to find your hidden TVs."
They write to me about once a month, persisting in this. Now I just ignore their letters.
Has anyone challenged the assertions of TVL? It wo...
Warren Swaine
I don't disagree with the Beebs sentiment apart fr...
Steve
What about mobiles & laptops?
Do mobiles & lapt...
Richard
Warren is right!
Regardless of the challenge W...
Paul Wingfield
It isn't the BBC, it's the TV Licencing Authority....
Anonymous
Concerning the legality of watching streamed feed ...
Anonymous
...and what about all those non-UK residents who c...
Dave
It would seem that the asserts the TVL is definite...
Richard Pettigrew
doesn't this count as a portable device which is c...
Steve Johnson
According to Brussels if what you download on your...
galley slave#41
Whilst I agree that they are wrong under the Act a...
Guy
Your anonymous corresponder from Ipswich doesn't s...
Colin Sharpe
The European Court made its view clear some years ...
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