Graham Thurlwell <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
news:24886d9b4f.jades@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>
From:
http://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/help/about_iplayer/tvlicence
"Will I need a TV licence to watch programmes on BBC iPlayer?
You do not need a television licence to watch television programmes on
the current version of the BBC iPlayer.
You will need to be covered by a TV licence if and when the BBC provides
a feature that enables you to watch ‘live' TV programmes on any later
version of BBC iPlayer, which has this option. Your TV licence for your
home address will cover your use of the BBC iPlayer in your home (and
outside the home if you use BBC iPlayer on a laptop or any other device
which is powered solely by its own internal batteries).
A ‘live' TV programme is a programme, which is watched or recorded at the
same time (or virtually the same time) as it is being broadcast or
otherwise distributed to members of the public. As a general rule, if a
person is watching a programme on a computer or other device at the same
time as it is being shown on TV then the programme is ‘live'. This is
sometimes known as simulcasting.
You cannot currently watch ‘live' TV programmes as part of BBC iPlayer,
however, we hope to offer this function in the future."
Which just goes to show how messed up the whole licencing thing is.
Ted
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