The BBC have got themselves a change in the law to charge a licence fee if you use internet devices to watch BBC’s on-demand and catch up content. This was originally written before I restated my No TV declaration. Their web site makes it clear that mobile devices are covered by any licence paid irrespective of the billing address. Before discovering this, I was considering writing a browser extension to warn when accessing iplayer’s tv sub site, but I came to the conclusion that it will be better to program the hub to block the iplayer site. Here are my notes.
Home Hub
Browser Extensions
- How to develop a firefox extension at mozilla.org
- About Safari extensions at Apple
The Law
- BBC iPlayer ‘loophole’ to be closed soon, says culture secretary reported by …er!… the BBC
- Television licensing in the United Kingdom at wikipedia, which says that portable devices are covered for use anywhere by a licence at an other address. If so, I don’t need to do anything.
More Shite
- The Register reconstructs the Telegraph’s project fear piece on a new “Detector Van” technology which allegedly sniffs the encrypted Wi-Fi signals; they recommend using a Ethernet cable. (After paying the licence obviously).
Related articles
Sadly the related articles provider has gone, it recommended these articles.
- BBC iPlayer loophole finally ends: From September, you’ll have to pay
- BBC iPlayer will require a TV licence from next month
- What you need to know about changes to TV licences
- BBC iPlayer to Require Licence Fee From September
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Image Credit: Jessica C @flickr CC 2005 BY-NC-SA
Blocking the site via the Hub would provide evidence so that when I certify I don’t use iplayer that I am telling the truth, although there is some evidence, at wikipedia that mobile devices are covered by a licence delivered to an alternate delivery address, this is repeated on the TV Licensing web site as the reason “covered by another licence” is a valid reason for declaring that an address needs no licence. (Similar text was removed from the main article today.)
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