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About the TV license potentially being extended to streaming services?

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Haruka · 29/01/2025 17:55

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/01/28/netflix-users-could-forced-pay-licence-fee/

I already pay enough for the services themselves. I don't watch live TV and especially not the BBC. I am fed up with this potentially becoming a lack of choice; it feels like extortion and yet another tax.

I know that in other countries any device capable of receiving live TV and/ or radio needs a licence (including car radios, laptops, iPads and smartphones), but in this day and age it's taking the piss potentially having to pay for a service I don't even use, just to get access to things that I do.

AIBU to take a very dim view of these proposals?

I'm surprised I haven't seen any other threads on this yet, but maybe I'm blinded by fury 😆

OP posts:
itsnotabouthepasta · 29/01/2025 17:59

I thought it was always the case that if you watch something “live” it’s covered by the licence fee.

the issue isn’t the bbc. They’ve never moved away from that. It’s that the streamers have started adding in live tv.

personally I don’t have a problem with the licence fee. I use the bbc website. I listen to bbc radio. I use bitesize to help my kid with her homework. I use the bbc recipes at least 5-6 times a month.

Secularbeaver · 29/01/2025 17:58

You're absolutely not being unreasonable, completely insane.

soupyspoon · 29/01/2025 17:56

I wouldnt have a problem with it to be honest.