Re: Tv license question
- From: "Alex" <no.spam@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Jun 2007 23:01:52 GMT
At 22:20:39 on 09/06/2007, Palindrome delighted uk.legal by announcing:
Alex Heney wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 10:01:56 +0100, johannes
<johs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Paladin wrote:
?Q wrote:
If you have a tv but do not have any channels tuned in nor
any receiving equipment set up.
It is soley used for playing dvds and games consoles do you
require a Tv License?
This is the only TV in the household. No sky NTL etc
subscription either.
If you have any equipment capable of recieving TV then you need
a license.
"If you have any equipment..." is by far too meaningless. You can
have a TV that is not tuned and not connected to an antenna. Then
it is not capable of receiving TV.
But to be on the safe side, you have to make it plain it can't be
used as a TV receiver.
Only if you so wish.
They will NOT win in court unless they can prove that you were
actually watching/recording it.
In theory, they could win if they caught you in the act of
installing it, but then they would have to prove that you were
installing it for the purpose of receiving programmes. Which would
be difficult.
I have never quite understood why they bothered to put "install" in
the regulations.
I find it difficult to believe that anyone has ever been prosecuted
for it.
It would be quite difficult (OK, not very difficult) to install a tv
system without receiving live broadcast at some time during the
installation process. So anyone installing could, potentially, be
charged with use - professional tv installers excepted.
I believe that it's specifically to install with the intent to receive
broadcasts. If there's no intent then there's no offence.
You could, I suppose, claim that you weren't using the system for the
purpose of receiving broadcast transmissions, but for the purpose of
installing a system capable of receiving broadcast transmissions and
that the actual reception was a side effect and not the reason.
I could take a 14" VGA monitor, run a wire from one of the pins of
the 15D socket to a dustbin lid and notify TVL that I had installed a
system for the purpose of receiving tv broadcasts. That would,
presumably, be all that they would need to seek a conviction under
the "install" clause, if I was unlicenced. I don't think that the law
differentiates between crimes carried out in a technically unviable
manner and those that could work...
If it doesn't meet the definition of a receiver then there's no
offence. I doubt very much that your invention would qualify.
It is almost worth trying, just to see the look on a TVL revenue
protection officer's face, as I showed him my "tv".. Somehow I doubt,
even with my "confession", that a prosecution would follow.
Because it wouldn't be an offence.
.
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