TV Licence Traps to watch out for!

Do the police have nothing better to do.

Can they tell from outside the property if you are watching the BBC on a phone - on a laptop - on your tv? In the old days they said they had detector vans going round and they could tell if you were watching and even WHICH room of the house you were in at the time

So what you're saying is any piece of modern technology ie smart phone, laptop, tablet, smart speaker with screen, the kind of item just about all of us have in our homes can leave us liable for prosecution even though there's no evidence that said equipment is being used to watch live TV right?
Simple solution. Do not ever let the scumbags access your property.

I don’t watch any TV live or otherwise, I care about my mental health!

Will not pay anything to the right wing Tory mouthpiece.

There was a major bonus of not having a TV licence during the plandemic - It meant I wasn’t allowed to watch any of the governments live broadcasts, not even hours/days later as it still showed the ‘live’ banner.

Saved me many months of mental anguish not being ‘allowed’ to watch Boris and his minions telling me how I should live whilst they and all the other politicians totally ignored their own ‘mandates’!

Bread and circus' crime!

Is watching GB news or Euronews or any similar news channels classed as live tv?

I hope you read the comments, I have no way of watching live to I mainly watch you tube, and dvd’s however I have been told if you’re tv can receive live to you need a license. However my car is capable of breaking the speed limit x3 but I don’t have a Entourage of traffic police waiting at the end of my lane they trust me to drive with due care and attention and respect other road users which I certainly do. Please if you have not already covered this issue would you kindly provide insight into this matter. Kindest regards George.

Once again, guilty until proven innocent.

No tv .no bbc apps .simple

Cancel your licence and keep your door closed. Their days are numbered.

Just don't speak to the Goons do not give them your details what you may or may not have in your house is none of their business

Tv licensing is nothing more than legalised extortion the license to be honest should be obsolete now when it was created there was only bbc in this day and age there are 100s of channels

Fucking BBC. Stay strong people! The more people who cancel thier licences and refuse to renew, the more likely BBC will have to give up the whole endeavour.

So if your homeless with a phone and watch on there you have to buy tv licence

Do we only need a TV licence for BBC broadcasting including radio?

People abroad watch BBC without a TV license

Having a device that is 'capable' of receiving live TV is no proof you 'watch' live TV, I have a fishing rod in my home, I don't need a licence for it unless I am fishing, even then its not for the rod its for the 'act' of fishing.

Could someone clear this up, Are TV licence enforcement officers only as good as a door to door salesman in that they are only there to get you to buy a licence to receive their commission and they are just employees of Capita with no powers under PACE? (Enforcement officer is only a term to scare you) ?

What most of you don’t realise is they can say they seen this or that to get a warrant even after just knocking on the door, you think they will play by the rules….erm NO.

give them time, if enough people give up buying a licence i can see a time when the courts grant a warrent just as a check on households without a licence

magistrates never bother with evidence they will sighn anything for a payday

understand the law is bent

I don't bother with TV I cannot pay for corruption and all the presentters are demons BBC need shutting down .😅

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you can actually remove any pre installed apps on a fire tv stick by going onto apps installed on this device, highlight the app and press the 3 lines button on your remote and select remove from the cloud , this will completely remove that app from your device,

why is it then that the bbc own everybodys tv ,, we cant watch it unless we buy their ticket to do so,, cant be right,, can it ?

Because i have smart phone
With 62,530,000 smart phone in the UK thats really enough evidence for a search warrant
You chat so much CRAP

Really my phone holds sensitive data so under general data protection regulations I don’t have to show them nothing

And these TV goons are not allowed to touch my mobile phone.

So same again blackbelt barrister you chat so much crap

They can check your app useage on your device.

Man the battlements.

This guy has a high opinion of magistrates. My limited experience of them is they are ill informed and dogmatic

Great advice, I've subscribed. Thank you.

Daniel, I would say that 95% of households have a TV, and the mere fact that someone has a TV isn't evidence that they watch live TV so TV Licencing would need further evidence to obtain a warrant. Therefore, if someone that doesn't have a TV invites someone in to prove they don't have a TV , but they have a mobile phone still isn't evidence that they watch live TV. Therefore, by natural Corollary, TV Licencing would have a hard time proving to a magistrate the need for a warrant purely based on the possession of a mobile device. If that was the case, a TV Licence "enforcement officer", could in theory approach anyone in the street with a mobile phone and ask them if they had a TV licence. I'm not disagreeing with you per se, but I don't think a magistrate would give a warrant to TV Licencing purely on the basis of being in possession of a mobile device...... that's getting into very dangerous territory.

Best just to say nothing and don't open the door to these goon's.

OK, all good advice it seems. But do we the public not have to beware? There cannot be many households in the UK that does not have a laptop and/or smart phone, both capable of receiving live TV. But just because we have these machines does not mean we DO receive live TV, in the same way that an inspector visiting your home is not necessarily a murderer, even though has has the equipment (he could strangle you!)!

I have subscriptions on my phone, no tv that have done the occasional live. If a subscription does a live I never watch I do watch it maybe 2 days later because it isn't live anymore it's a catch up so in theory they can't have me for that. That's my thinking anyway. Gave up my licence 2 years ago and had no letters no knocks on the door and this is the way I have done it over the last 2 years. Live programmes are watched days later not as they are being done.

My understanding is a lot of these apps use a VPN

I was live on TikTok a few weeks ago when the TV license goons came to my door and i decided to have some fun by opening the door and telling the goons to "get to f**k" and "your live on TikTok BTW". The look on their faces was priceless😂😂😂

Hi, can you confirm whether the wording of the BBC declaration is legal or not. It expects us to sign to say we will not watch any TV (at least the way we read it) rather than not watching Live TV and iPlayer.

This sounds more ridiculous than the stories you hear about China

Seriously all the gov is to do is get rid of the bbc. No other country pays and so should we. It is is not contracting and it's around as a scam.

No I don’t have to open my mobile phone is just got sensitive data onto
GDPR laws

So what the Fkkkkk do you know

I moved into my rented property in 2021 and immediately declared that I do not need a TV licence. I made the same declaration in 2022 and 2023 and 2024. Never had any issues until I began receiving mail from TV licensing with the incorrect address. They added the words "The Flat" above the name of my property. They were duly contacted in regard to this matter which they have totally ignored. I even received a letter stating that someone at my postcode had watched BBC iPlayer (despite my postcode area having around a dozen properties) and again made loose threats about fines etc.
This letter I totally ignored because at that stage I wanted someone to call whilst I was at home to confront them and revoke their right of access. I had to explain to my wife what these individuals are capable of, and if they arrive at our property, she should call me right away and then insult them in her native language (Thai).
My question is, what can I legally do about the constant misaddressed letters coming to my property as surely this can be classed as harassment?

Still hard to imagin this is a law 😂😂😂😂 you can always rely on the british system to rob you for any penny i can name alot even robbing off kids taking them on holiday not during a school term to save money because you get robbed when it is school holidays

What is the situation when an employee has iPlayer on his personal phone while at a work premises? Management cannot realistically control if they watch live broadcasts on their own phone during breaks whilst on the premises.

Can TV Licencing get an Order requiring Sky to give them viewing information about its customers or has this hapoened? In which case they need not even visit someone's home to get evidence?

Not had a TV for 10 years now, but still get hassle every two years from them

Thank you for your sound advice.