Monday 10 March 2008

TV Licence needed for online and mobile TV?

from Information Overlord by scott

Tom Loosemore has an interesting post in which he asks if just owning a PC could mean that you need a TV Licence in the UK. He points to comments made by the BBC’s Director of BBC Future Media and Technology, Ashley Highfield, who states that whilst using the BBC’s iPlayer on demand Internet TV service would not need a licence, watching any live stream on BBC News 24, for example would.

It starts to get complicated (depends on the interpretation of "apparatus capable of receiving a signal") so I would suggest that you go to Information Overlord and read what scott has to say for yourself.

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