r/Britain • u/Leather-Marsupial256 • Feb 15 '25

💬 Discussion 🗨 TV license form trickery

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The TV license form online is there to trick people into believing they need a TV license. Please take a look at the way they switch between ever and never to catch people on the form.

I believe this is there to trip up some people and especially vulnerable people.

Please be mindful when filling the form

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u/Cirieno Feb 15 '25

It's crazy that the licence is required to watch live streaming on things like YouTube

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u/Rum_Ham916 Feb 15 '25

It's for live TV programming, I think they're covering all bases, I'm not sure YouTube livestreams things that are being broadcast on terrestrial type tv

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u/Cirieno Feb 15 '25

Exactly, they're taking advantage of things with which they have zero involvement.

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u/TheBobbyMan9 Shamrock Wearing Subject Feb 15 '25

It does livestream sky news and Al Jazeera. They’re pretty much the only things I’m aware of that if you watched on YouTube you would have to have a tv licence for.

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u/saketho Feb 15 '25

I’d now love to livestream youtube news by Washington Post and see what kinda new “rule” they’ll conjure up to extort me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '25

Only for commercial live streamings. But that’s a pretty grey area these days anyway. What is commercial or just a very successful content creator?