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I'm pretty sure if you showed up at a shack in rural Alabama asking about a TV license you'd fucking disappear.Protip: Just don't correspond with TV Licensing. Their main weapon is their database of addresses and they only usually call round during office hours when most people are at work. If you refuse to talk to them or let them in or anything, they can't determine whether or not you have a TV and they have only limited resources so very rarely get a search warrant.
What happens is this. You get a nastygram reminding "The Legal Occupier" that they need a TV licence. A month later they send a red nastygram threatening "home visits" and "enforcement action." They keep trying. Someone comes round, usually in office hours when you're at work, and leaves a card. You ignore it. They give up and the cycle starts again.
They also use pre-printed clipart to look like stamps saying "Enforcement Visit Approved" with the printed signature. However it's always signed "J. Hales" and the letter is printedly signed in my area by a Jane Powell, Plymouth Enforcement Division. It's fooling nobody.
Meanwhile they have like 4 detector vans nationwide which don't work if you don't use a CRT television (the colours aren't bright enough) and they'd need to get RIPA approval to use packet sniffing of Wi Fi and if you hardwire your compy to the router this doesn't work either.
Don't worry, I know most of that. It's not like they gonna come anyway, they have "Hate crimes" to rush off and stop. That and those fatal butter knifes being carried round the street. Thanks for telling me anyways.Protip: Just don't correspond with TV Licensing. Their main weapon is their database of addresses and they only usually call round during office hours when most people are at work. If you refuse to talk to them or let them in or anything, they can't determine whether or not you have a TV and they have only limited resources so very rarely get a search warrant.
What happens is this. You get a nastygram reminding "The Legal Occupier" that they need a TV licence. A month later they send a red nastygram threatening "home visits" and "enforcement action." They keep trying. Someone comes round, usually in office hours when you're at work, and leaves a card. You ignore it. They give up and the cycle starts again.
They also use pre-printed clipart to look like stamps saying "Enforcement Visit Approved" with the printed signature. However it's always signed "J. Hales" and the letter is printedly signed in my area by a Jane Powell, Plymouth Enforcement Division. It's fooling nobody.
Meanwhile they have like 4 detector vans nationwide which don't work if you don't use a CRT television (the colours aren't bright enough) and they'd need to get RIPA approval to use packet sniffing of Wi Fi and if you hardwire your compy to the router this doesn't work either.
Protip: Just don't correspond with TV Licensing. Their main weapon is their database of addresses and they only usually call round during office hours when most people are at work. If you refuse to talk to them or let them in or anything, they can't determine whether or not you have a TV and they have only limited resources so very rarely get a search warrant.
What happens is this. You get a nastygram reminding "The Legal Occupier" that they need a TV licence. A month later they send a red nastygram threatening "home visits" and "enforcement action." They keep trying. Someone comes round, usually in office hours when you're at work, and leaves a card. You ignore it. They give up and the cycle starts again.
They also use pre-printed clipart to look like stamps saying "Enforcement Visit Approved" with the printed signature. However it's always signed "J. Hales" and the letter is printedly signed in my area by a Jane Powell, Plymouth Enforcement Division. It's fooling nobody.
Meanwhile they have like 4 detector vans nationwide which don't work if you don't use a CRT television (the colours aren't bright enough) and they'd need to get RIPA approval to use packet sniffing of Wi Fi and if you hardwire your compy to the router this doesn't work either.
just keep a fucking log of every television bought
I wonder if they get paid on commission that's why some of them are so pushy.
I put in SW1A 0AA, which I suspect many other people did. That's the postcode for the Houses of Parliament.
So you can just block that shit with thick curtains?They stopped doing that in 2013. In any event, if you buy a TV second hand from some bloke down the pub, they can't possibly tell. They also never tracked computer monitors.
They tried to make you have a licence to watch BBC iPlayer but they only require you to insert your postcode to see if that address is licenced. I put in SW1A 0AA, which I suspect many other people did. That's the postcode for the Houses of Parliament.
TV Licencing has been criticised for heavy handedness for decades. Here's Not the Nine O'Clock News (on the BBC no less) parodying their ads in 1980:
They do.
Also, TV detector vans work by, I shit you not, effectively peering into your window with a huge fuck off lens and seeing if what you're watching is what is on using algorithms and shit. I know this because I saw a witness statement from a Court hearing about that a while back. Signed by the TV licencing bod in question. I might see if I have it saved somewhere.
Also, TV detector vans work by, I shit you not, effectively peering into your window with a huge fuck off lens and seeing if what you're watching is what is on using algorithms and shit. I know this because I saw a witness statement from a Court hearing about that a while back. Signed by the TV licencing bod in question. I might see if I have it saved somewhere.
I'm pretty sure if you showed up at a shack in rural Alabama asking about a TV license you'd fucking disappear.
It's like, "we want to fund our nonsense propaganda television station, but we also want everyone to be able to see our propaganda, so lets make television broadcasting free to access and then just keep a fucking log of every television bought so we can harass women who are home alone into buying the license". In the US we can't even maintain a national registry of guns because the gun owners would start executing anyone from ATF who swung by to try and enforce it, but in the UK you have a registry of television and computer monitor owners.
I am all but certain this is some communist-level demoralization tactics.
So you can just block that shit with thick curtains?
PART. AND. PARCEL
So TV license vans could essentially be defeated by just sticking a large piece of plastic on a window.
You start to see where Douglas Adams got the idea for Vogons.
They put more effort into finding unlicensed tellies than preventing children from getting raped by "Asians".I think they work from reflections as well using algorithms or such.
http://tv-licensing.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/lifting-lid-on-tv-licensings-pandoras.html
That and the inspiration Dystopian future society of Terry Gilliam's Brazil, which I might as well call the present rather than the future.