honestly, the TV licensing laws are one of my pet hates. it is infuritating!
for those who do not know.... back in the good old days of one maybe two black and white, grainy TV channels which would air from about 5 pm to 10pm, the BBC was publicly funded; ie you paid a tax!
now.... you have a gazillion channels from the world over, but to watch any of them, you have to pay the BBC this tax still (which is £135 per year).
it is worth noting that the BBC sells their programming the world over to people who do not have to pay tax to watch their programs. the BBC makes a huge profit from this, and yet, we still have to pay tax.
because of the presumption that everyone watches TV, if your address has no license registered to it; the BBC are allowed to assume you are watching their shows without a license and thus, you are a criminal. to this end, they send out letters which closely look like and are worded in accordance to those letters sent out as acourt summons!
even if you announce that you do not watch TV, you are pestered every 6 months by the license people, who request permission to enter you home to check for the presence of a TV or anything similar. if you say no, then you really do get a summons.
one wonders what would happen if a private cable / satellite TV provider / programmer tried such aggressive and out right threatening 'sales' tactics.
it is a disgrace. yay canada!
rant ends.
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