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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:46:42 GMT
From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: UK Saabers only


in article blcWf.23644$H%3.12022nospamfe5-gui.ntli.net, Ron Gerard at ronnospamrd.as wrote on 28/03/2006 16:09: >>> Not only that, but the license is almost considered as an compulsory Tax. >>> If you deny that you have a TV, then the licensing authorities will >>> assume >>> that you're cheating; they will sent out threatening letters of legal >>> action and come round to inspect your home. >> >> For which you can refuse to allow them in ... Go to court ... Have your >> day >> out and when asked "How do you plead?", say, "I don't have a TV". Simple >> as >> that. Keep wasting their time ... The worst that can happen if you don't >> have a TV is that you will be inconvenienced with a trip to court once and >> then the ability to ignore whatever letters come thereafter. > > Fear not, they'll get you sooner or later. You have a computer connected to > the internet. You can receive BBC on that. Wait till the next budget - > they'll have a licence payable on computers. Well, they say that, but since your mobile phone can "get the BBC" also, will that fall into the same category? What about if your car uses "internet technology" in the future, say, to report faults or service recalls? What about if your washing machine or fridge did likewise? Or a new personal gadget gizmo thing that can't really be called a personal computer comes onto the market? What about if the personal computer simply ceases to exists as a result of that gadget? How will they define a personal computer? How will they define its purpose? I could get my old C64 out and run a web browser on it. If they define it as a web capable computer, then again, what do they mean? One of two things will happen with that one ... Either the definition of the computer will be so strict that anyone will be able to build a slight enough variant to avoid it, or the definition will be so slack that almost anything could be covered by it. If it goes that way, then I reckon the latter, which was the crux of "rantings" the other night (as one happy reader put it). UK law is just so wishy-washy (well, I repeatedly called it "fucked", but we're before the watershed at the moment) and full of holes either way that unless you have the money to buy your way out or are one of those who are above the law (as in, define it) then you're done for either way. Just one thing about the UK TV license ... If you own a colour TV and license it, that license covers any B&W TVs you might have in the house. Likewise, the B&W license covers only a B&W screen and any radio transistors you have in the house (which the colour license does by proxy). If you have no TV and are one of these people who think they could stand up in court and say "I have no TV", just make sure you have no radios, eh? Oh, and if you receive radio or TV broadcasts on your PC, you must have a TV license. Now, if I did not have a TV, radio and did not view TV or listen the radio transmissions on my PC then do I still need a license because my PC is _capable_ of doing so, by having a web browser and media playing software? If so, why not, since that is the rationale for charging a TV license if you own a TV, but do not use it to receive TV signals (ie only watch videos or DVDs). So, we're back to Ron's point :) Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/

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