I understand paying for a license if you use the tv to watch bbc etc. but if you only watch hulu it is still an offence not to have one, right?
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It’s only an offence if you use your TV to watch the free to air channels (online or offline).
EDIT: So if you don’t want to watch don’t pay the £200/year for tens of free channels.
Compare that to any subscription service that squeezes every last penny it can from you while forcing ads down your throat.
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Exactly Josh, make it a subscription service if it’s so wonderful, forcing people to pay who don’t want to watch it is extortion.
Edit: Only the bbc is advert-less, take the adverts off all the other channels I’m supposedly paying for and I might consider it.
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Ive not had one for years.
I dont watch anything live or on bbc so dont need one.
It doesnt stop them pestering me to call them and reaffirm with threats of sending the police if i dont.
Not a nice practice to use.
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before you hear something that challenges your assumptions, you mean 
But we do need another testnet…
For the last 15 years it was wall to wall adverts for Nigel bloody Farage and pandering to the innate racism of the English.
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Afaik, only the BBC receive money from the licence fee. All the other channels, including channel 4, must advertise or charge their own subscription to fund themselves.
So, really it is a BBC fee… but you still have to pay it, even if you don’t watch the BBC.
With todays technology, surely there is a better way to pay for the BBC?
Fwiw, I do watch some BBC programs and listen to BBC radio. I also pay my fee. I just wonder why the payment approach hasn’t been modernised.
How much is it?
Does anybody have a clip of Ralph Breaks the Internet where the MaidSafe logo is visible?
I think it’s nice promotional material.
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maybe, if MaidSAFE hadn’t changed the logo and indeed the name of the network 
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In Finland the license was changed to tax several years ago. Much better that way. No way to evade it, and probably less opposition also, just because “license” sounds so stupid.
Price is 0€ - 163€ depending on how much you earn. In my opinion, very good system.
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About £170 per year
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I think that is updated to just owning a device that can receive TV, via arial, satellite or Internet. I think that is likely unenforceable and could be a challenge to fine somebody, but …
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That’s not the case. The law is about watching not owning a computer or a mobile. That would be absurd.
I believe it’s now a lot more difficult to determine if a TV is in use in a house. The old cathode ray tube TVs were detectable from a van outside the house and they could see what was on the screen. Unless that was an urban myth.
They were real but it was mostly psyops. Today it is very difficult.
What I expect at some point is a registration system but they haven’t done that yet. They just ask if you watch online whether you have a license.
Absolutely wild trip looking back. IIRC there were only around 100 who decided on that logo.
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Love that logo. After a decade or so they should rebrand back: “SAFE Network, formerly Autonomi.”
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