Alex Heney wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 22:16:01 +0100, Claire Rand
> wrote:
>
>> Jonathan Bryce wrote:
>>> whitely525@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>>>
>>>> What if I use UMTS mobile t'internet and watch live-stream telly on
>>>> the move..? Do I need a license for the park bench..?
>>> Your home TV licence covers battery operated TV equipment, such as your
>>> phone, outside the house.
>> hence the mutterings year or so ago about when phone companies started
>> offering streaming tv to your phone, you would need a tv license to have
>> a mobile. and that TVL wanted to be informed of anyone buying a phone so
>> they could check this.
>>
>> not heard about it since, presumably someone told them to sod off and
>> get the law changed if they wanted to be outside the remit of the DPA
>
> They have no need whatsoever to get the law changed. And the DPA just
> doesn't come into it at all.
>
> The only reason you have heard nothing more about it is that they
> realised it just wouldn't be worth their while for the incredibly low
> number of cases where there would even be illegal avoidance of paying
> for a TVL, never mind the great difficulty in ever getting a
> conviction for it.
I sit corrected, actually it's more of a slouch but you get the idea.
amazing to see practicality taking a front seat though, didn't think TVL
cared about what was 'worth it' or not |