On the 6 May 2008, Tyler Trafford <ttrafford+usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Graham Thurlwell wrote:
>> Weirdwolf wrote:
>>
>>> You can watch the Iplayer thingy on the wii now and I don't need a TV
>>> licence.
>>
>> You may be wrong there, but I can't remember the precedent off the top
>> of my head. The wording "capable of receiving a television broadcast"
>> springs uncertainly to mind.
> With so many tunerless televisions being sold the last few years, I
> wonder if they went the wrong way in their specificity.
Tunerless TV would be incapable of receiving a television broadcast
due to the lack of the tuner and I'm fairly sure that they're
explicitly exempted. A DVD player with a tunerless TV would be fine,
but in the case of a tunerless TV connected to a Wii with internet
access it may be argued that the Wii would be the device receiving the
broadcast, therefore requiring a license.
As far as I recall, there have been no actual test cases involving
whether the TV Licence affects downloading programmes over the
Internet. I'm not really familiar with Iplayer.
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