UK TV Licensing – This Week’s Comment Roundup
This week we’d like to highlight ruighean’s comment on the post Saving Money on TV License over at the new HackCollege.co.uk. His comment reads:
Taken from TVLicensing.co.uk:
“You must be covered by a valid TV Licence if you watch or record television programmes as they’re being shown on TV. It makes no difference what equipment you use – whether it’s a laptop, PC, mobile phone, digital box, DVD recorder or a TV set – you still need a licence.
You do not need a TV Licence to view video clips on the internet, as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.”
There was a small dispute in the comment thread over whether or not a TV licensing fee was required if you solely watch your content online. ruighean cleared up the air for all of us. Thanks!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kelly Sutton is a software engineer at blip.tv in New York City. During his days at Loyola Marymount University , he founded HackCollege. He earned degrees in film production and computer science (and took a fifth year). Kelly started HackCollege in August of 2006. While in school, Kelly was involved in Crimson Circle, a service organization at LMU; played on Laser Squad Bravo , the campus improv team; ran the underground media outlet, Fuck Yeah LMU ; and taught LMU's first Web video class and held odd jobs around campus throughout his tenure. Kelly started HackCollege in August of 2006. While in school, Kelly was involved in Crimson Circle, a service organization at LMU; played on Laser Squad Bravo , the campus improv team; ran the underground media outlet, Fuck Yeah LMU ; and taught LMU's first Web video class and held odd jobs around campus throughout his tenure. Kelly held some pretty awesome internships throughout college at Automatic Duck , Revision3 and blip.tv. He is quite the weird guy. He sold all of his possessions through his site, Cult of Less . The world apparently cared, along with the BBC, NBC Nightly News, CBC and Der Spiegel. Kelly is also a founder of LayerVault , a simple version control service for designers. Kelly has spoken at a few conferences including South by Southwest , 140conf and Trandmediale . Although he finds the word dirty, Kelly has consulted for many projects including TakePart , a subsidiary of Participant Media ( An Inconvenient Truth , The Cove , Syriana ) and Capture Your Flag . He has also published his very own guide to Berlin. Kelly is @ KellySutton on Twitter. Kelly can be reached at kelly@hackcollege.com
