To stick two fingers up at the bbc

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Finally ditched our Virgin box after we realised we only use it to watching corrie. Which means no more to licence and no more funding the bbc. Good old Xbox

Ridiculous how people moan about paying the licence fee, then expect to watch BBC programmes on iPlayer

Totally, how do people think Iplayer is even funded

The (flawed) argument will be invalid soon anyway, it's only come about because technology has moved so quickly in recent years

sooperdooper we now pay £11 a month in total to watch all of our catch up services. So yeah I'd say I win lol. Well I will not be buying once ever again so when the "tv licence men" (oooooh scary) come to my door I will do what i always do and say "I'm refusing you entry"
And then close the door. Works a treat. You might be scaremongered into paying it but I won't be.

Goodbetterbest I don't expect to, I do it. It's bloody brilliant.

Sooper, where is this new charter that says catchup TV will need license fee?
I'm interested in this, I dislike being forced to pay for things I don't like.

But you weren't paying the £70 you begrudged to the BBC, you were paying it to Virgin, so I still don't get your point

Yeah you've saved money, against what you were paying virgin - if you weren't paying a license anyway it's irrelevant

Seeyou I doubt it. It's all talk. Technology is moving too quickly for them to keep closing all loopholes. Don't pay it and don't let them in. They have no rights, don't let them pretend that they do.

Blimey . Tv vigilantes.

Make sure you shout 'I know my rights!'

I know GIN, already there.

Id paid the whole year and called the fucking morons people at TV locemsing and said I want to cancel and want a refund as I'd paid till January. They refused, so no only have I paid for a service I neither want nor use I can't get refunded what I've already paid.

If it was any other company it wouldn't be allowed.

BBC can eat a bale, unless it's funded by general tax I'll not pay them another cent.

It's been in the news for ages that they're looking to make Iplayer covered by the licence rather than catch up BBC programmes not falling under the rules, this was from July

m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/7737080

What's wrong with the BBC? They make good tv and I like their news coverage. Plus no adverts works for me.

anyway, the loop hole over watching catch up TV is being covered in the new charter so the concept of not needing one to watch Iplayer won't be valid anymore

How's that going to work then?

I'm happy to pay it for The Archers alone! Not being facetious, bloody love The Archers.

I'd pay for 5 live and Sherlock. Totally.

Don't pay them a cent though. They'll say 'fuck off with your American money'

Madelinehatter

What's wrong with the BBC?

Ignoring the massive paedophile cover up my main issues are:

Paying people ridiculous mounts for no real value, Chris Moyle's 3 hours a day cost around £1m of our money.
www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jul/01/chris-moyles-signs-1m-bbc-contact

Then there's the COMMERCIAL arm of the BBC, BBC Worldwide. They sell programs we've paid for to be shown in countries who haven't paid for them. Yet we don't see the profits or a reduction in License? Weird.. www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/whatwedo/commercialbusiness

Take a program like Mister Maker. We pay the BBC, they make it, they sell it to 100 countries around the world, we get no profit, no reduction in fee, nothing. Where donthe profits go? Back to making more programs? What are we paying for again? www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/CBeebies-star-Mister-Maker-takes-Shapes-UK-tour/story-27788793-detail/story.html

Finally, if you don't pay your mortgage, they take you home away, nt may your car, they take your car away, don't pay your TV License? Your filthy criminal scum. Effectively punishing people and making them criminals for not paying for a luxury service. Nice. www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/24/in-court-non-payment-tv-licence-television-desperate-cases

Oh and also, why should I pay for something I don't use or enjoy? Imagine if Sky suggested everyone in the country HAS to pay £10 a month or theyre criminals? They'd be laughed at and told to feck off.

Other than that. The BBC ae fine.

I used to think the BBC was the absolute pinnacle of truth, properness and British values, and was happy to directly fund it.
In the last few years, I've come to realise that it's a corrupt, deceitful, sexist organisation - it should be regulated much more tightly.

Ken's shagging Audrey?

I agree with Leccy, stopped paying (entirely legally) 2 years ago. I am sickened by the amouts they paid in payouts to senior execs etc. Yentob's pension will be 210,000 a year - that's his pension! And he's going to keep working for the Beeb even though he's stepped down from one role.

As for no adverts, the BBC is full of adverts for their programmes, products and services and propoganda about how great it is.

Agree with leccybill - corrupt, deceitful and biased, and they haven't had a penny from me since September last year. I hardly watched their output anyway, and what I do like I can watch on iPlayer. And when that requires a licence then I will wait for the DVD and get someone else to buy it for me so I'm still not paying them.

Whooooooooaaa......spoiler alert missed!!!!!!

"Ken and Audrey getting Jiggy" WTAF!!

Here in NZ Hayley has just had her funeral. I've been hanging on for the end of that storyline...so now I'm going cold turkey and finally giving up Corrie.

I don't have a TV so no licence for me either. I fundamentally disagree with it and am horrified by the harrassment tactics they use to try to bully those with no need of one into paying.

I was very happy when they decriminalised it. What a joke!

SumThucker Give it time.. Any week now I'm sure of it! lol

eleanor omg your ages behind!
That was about two years ago I think!

Sorry, got a bit sidetracked there!

I don't care if people pay for a license or not, but I do think that non-license holders should be unable to access iplayer.

Of everyone stops paying they will either take it out of taxes or, more likely make iplayer a pay per view service. How does £11 a month sound?

And They sell programs we've paid for to be shown in countries who haven't paid for them. em, if they sell them to these countries then they have paid. That is what sell means.

Yy the bbc waste money on wages. But they will get paid for one way or another or they will cease to exist they won't suddenly become free.

seeyou so true. I'll eat my own arm before I fund that paedophile ring again.

My issue with the BBC is more to do with its partisan nature than Chris Moyle's salary..

PRIORITIES woman.

If you're going to go the back-door route, at least have principles.