How clever, TVLR. I pay a UK TV license, so I want to be able to watch UK TV wherever I could be. I don't see why you'd think it's silly to complain...
26 December 2008 at 21:39
Anonymous said...
> I pay a UK TV license, so I want to be able to watch UK TV wherever I could be That's your problem: a common but fairly obvious error. The two statements you made have no logical connection. Otherwise foreign visitors (who don't paya TV license fee) would not be allowed to watch UK TV.
27 December 2008 at 14:11
Anonymous said...
You should be to run "tsocks mplayer ..." rather than setting LD_PRELOAD, etc. by hand.
27 December 2008 at 18:44
Anonymous said...
The phrase "TV license" pains me greatly.
30 December 2008 at 00:16
Anonymous said...
>Otherwise foreign visitors (who don't paya TV license fee) would not be allowed to watch UK TV. That doesn't really make sense. The viewer doesn't have to pay the license, the person owning the receiver does. Even having your own television in a hotel doesn't count since it's highly likely your hotel is paying the fee for you. (unless you have a no-tv room in which case you'd be illegally watching TV if you brought your own there and managed to hook it up)
5 January 2009 at 13:33
Anonymous said...
TV Licence = Stealth TAX
Why cant we buy TV`s that do not include BBC frequencies?
You have had your fun BBC now fix it by advertising like the rest of the channels have to. Does ITV, Channel 4 or Channel 5 charge a stealth tax? NO.
8 June 2009 at 17:19
Anonymous said...
RCR UK has some good comments about the TV Licence.
3. Create a tsocks.conf file: server = 127.0.0.1 server_port = 9999 server_type = 5
4. Launch a (simple) player with proxy support: TSOCKS_CONF_FILE=`pwd`/tsocks.conf LD_PRELOAD=`pwd`/libtsocks.so.1.8 mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/live/live.asx
"I pay my TV license"
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"Therefore, I'll want to listen to 5 Live tomorrow lunch time, when I'm in France, but United play Stoke."
The BBC TV Licence is for the UK so it's rather silly to complain while in France lmao
26 December 2008 at 14:57
How clever, TVLR. I pay a UK TV license, so I want to be able to watch UK TV wherever I could be. I don't see why you'd think it's silly to complain...
26 December 2008 at 21:39
> I pay a UK TV license, so I want to be able to watch UK TV wherever I could be
That's your problem: a common but fairly obvious error. The two statements you made have no logical connection. Otherwise foreign visitors (who don't paya TV license fee) would not be allowed to watch UK TV.
27 December 2008 at 14:11
You should be to run "tsocks mplayer ..." rather than setting LD_PRELOAD, etc. by hand.
27 December 2008 at 18:44
The phrase "TV license" pains me greatly.
30 December 2008 at 00:16
>Otherwise foreign visitors (who don't paya TV license fee) would not be allowed to watch UK TV.
That doesn't really make sense. The viewer doesn't have to pay the license, the person owning the receiver does. Even having your own television in a hotel doesn't count since it's highly likely your hotel is paying the fee for you. (unless you have a no-tv room in which case you'd be illegally watching TV if you brought your own there and managed to hook it up)
5 January 2009 at 13:33
TV Licence = Stealth TAX
Why cant we buy TV`s that do not include BBC frequencies?
You have had your fun BBC now fix it by advertising like the rest of the channels have to. Does ITV, Channel 4 or Channel 5 charge a stealth tax? NO.
8 June 2009 at 17:19
RCR UK has some good comments about the TV Licence.
"Blogging Britain"
8 June 2009 at 17:21
Anon: Unlike you, I'm happy paying for the TV license, given the great wealth of information, and ad-free TV viewing I get from it.
8 June 2009 at 17:37