* Posts by Winston Smith

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Beeb tech boss seeks to expand TV licence online

Winston Smith
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The BBC can go to ....

The TV Licence is for 'receiving television programmes as they are broadcast'. The licence is NOT for owning a TV.

I do not watch TV, my set is detuned back to factory condition, the aerial is unplugged, and I have removed the aerial socket from the wall. I do not use the BBC's online 'services' at all. My TV is used purely for watching DVDs and for a games console.

I notified TV Licencing of this last December. Since then I have received a stream of threatening letters in demand that I buy a TV Licence, they have phoned my elderly parents who live at a totally different address. As far as I am concerned the BBC, and their Stasi attack dogs TV Licencing, can go to hell.

I will absolutely refuse to buy a TV Licence (or BBC tax as it should be called) just because I have a computer and web connection.