I'm so poor I don't have Sky TV let alone a licence😂😂

I wish half of the current license payers would just ask for a refund, then keep saying they do not need a license, it wouldn't take long for that disgusting organisation to collapse and become nothing more than a bad memory 🤮🤮🤮

Had 2 ladies came to door earlier. First question: "Do you live here?" My wife asked who they were and they told her TV Licencing. My wife simply said "please go away" and shut the door! I'm so proud of her! Thanks to your channel for teaching her that they're simply salespeople and closing the door on them is not a problem!

My tv works very well without a license thanks, 😊

If you are allowed under law to go "no comment" when accused of the most serious of offenses....Why oh why would you feel it was necessary to talk to a TV licensing goon who has no power AT ALL over you?

Doors with locks were invented thousands of years ago to keep people safe from evil. And that is how you keep yourself safe from this evil. Dont answer the door to strangers and if you do make that mistake slam and lock it as soon as you find out its the goons.

The TV licence boils down to a simple principle, which seems to be illegal in every other walk of life. "Nice little business you have here mate! Be a shame if you had a fire!" It's a protection racket, pure and simple.

I left home 3 years ago. I've never had one. I don't watch TV at all. I've told them that when they came round to ask why there is no licence at my address. They asked if they could come in, I said you would be welcome to come in if you return with the police and a warrant. That was the last I heard from them. It was around two years ago.

Got a guy at my door. "No record of a TV licence." But I DO have a TV licence! "Well, if I could just come in and see it?" I had another suggestion - he could simply f*** right off! I hadn't any evidence he was even who he said he was. If he was genuine he could go back and check the record. If he wasn't, he had 10 seconds before I phoned the police. But - he had ID! Which to me proved nothing more than he owned an inkjet printer! Still don't know if he was genuine, but further discussion was aborted by the arrival of my son and his dog. The 'licence inspector' legged it.

I had my third visit just a few minutes ago. I just didn’t answer They put one of their threats through my door. Straight to the bin.

I canceled last year and got a refund, and today i got a letter saying i am on the list to be giving a visit by the goons....bring it on i say

TV licence is £160. I've heard of people who have been to court and pleaded guilty to watching live TV without a TV licence and being fined less than the cost of the TV licence. What is the point in buying one then?

I got a refund from TV licencing when I cancelled mine 5 years ago, it was by check but none the less, they refunded me. Not heard from them since. Cheers John.

No one in Scotland has been taken to court for non payment.

Thanks I keep spreading the word, nearly two years license free and have plenty to watch leagaly 🎉

Remembers folks: the default is you do NOT need a TV Licence. It's opt in, rather than opt out, despite what the BBC 'think'. Ignore all their games, the simplest method is not to partake in their gibberish and that makes them impotent.

I've been fined! Never paid it. never been recorded.

What about Reform stating they would scrap the license. What a great day that would be ..

Id love to apply for a refund however I've never gave them a single penny.

I don't have a tv licence. I very rarely answer my door but if I do, I always look down from an upstairs window first to see who is calling. Good luck goons!

I automatically got a refund when I cancelled mine. An unexpected benefit!

not had a TV or licence since 2014

I have told TV Licensing in writing that I don't need their services and I'll get in touch if I ever do. They keep asking me and sending letters that some bloke called Ross has started an investigation. He's started about four investigations now, but he never seems to get anywhere. I keep emailing them to try and help him out. This has been going for years. I just feel really bad for poor Ross.

Not seen this covered elsewhere but if you renew your "No license needed" form online you have to answer a series of questions. At first impression answering "No" in quick succession will catch you out and it will not let you progress any further unless you answer all of them, then when you push submit it will eventually state on a separate page, (depending on your answers) whether you need a license or not. Please read questions very carefully. Sly B'stards!

I don’t have a license for my tv but I don’t watch tv

So the average fine is around £150 and the TV licence is £160...ok.

We just stopped the DD . 5 years later and I’m still known as Legal Occupier 😂

Not having a licence for almost 3 years and fingers crossed not had a visit. They can knock on my door as much as they want but i am not talking to them. I don't watch any live TV or the BBC Iplayer and just don't miss it. What will the new goverment do in 2027, has anyone asked them ?

You don't have to pay for a tv licence if you go to court and plead guilty to watching TV without a TV licence. If you say they do. Then show me the evidence.

I have lived on my own from the age of 18 when i left social services care, im 57 now and i have never had a tv licence. 🌞

Depends what you tell the salesman at your door

Everyone should tell the BBC that you wish to restrict access to your property once you have informed them then they are never allowed to call at your address and if they do then you can have them charged I did this over fifteen years ago now, No callers or letters simples

Colleague at work said they told her she needed a tv license because the kids watch KZfaq on the telly.

Just had a letter to the occupier as usual, on the outside of the envelope it says" will you be in on the 25th" they dont even put it in the letter anymore. Well, i,ve sent back a plain envelope to them with, "no i won,t be in" on the envelope, nothing else written at all.

good reporting, makes a change

I haven't had a visit in over 10 years.

And don't throw in the towel if you get an "SJP notice " (single justice procedure) you still have the right to plead not guilty and have your time in court to hear what they got to say and fight against it.. It better be good! As long as you never gave the goons any verbal incriminating evidence, Or physical evidence, and you deny deny deny, There's no reason the judge should find you guilty.

I was typing and it disappeared.. the goones terminology was “can I see if you have the facility” most people’s phones have the “facility” . Some people I know can’t see why I and people like us don’t just pay it’s £3 ish a week. For me it’s because I’m told to . I don’t watch anything I shouldn’t at home. Sport I go to a pub or friends. As for the assumption.. if I have a car on my drive the authorities don’t knock at my door and give me parking,speeding fines etc. because I have the ability to get those .

The ultimate TV License Deterrent...Land Mines at the front door

Why do you never mention the removal of implied access? When I rang the bbc and told them I am removing all implied rights of access. They told me no goons would come onto my property.

I find I'm fine without one😂

This is from last August 2023. Manchester Evening News. A 20 Yr old unemployed male pleads guilty to watching live TV without a TV licence and he's fined £136 in total. So he's saving.

I have just purchased a property myself and i have now had the in red warning £1,000 fine. Apparently Amazon prime video is now on the list. I will be looking into getting a Bluetooth link or cable link between the TV and my laptop so I can watch non live content from my computer. Most of what I watch is off KZfaq anyway.

No licence for 5 yrs now,just got a letter from them to say that I have to make a declaration that I don’t need one for the next 12 months and they may send someone out to check,

I download programs every week via my pc and spend hours watching them. I dont have a tv licence and wont buy one. As you pointed out they are not the police or baliff's so i am surprised they can get away with getting warrants in an attempt to enter your home.

The only thing I would change in the entire article is the bit on live TV, it’s broadcast live TV such as you can’t watch BBC News if that’s the version what’s been live broadcast at the same time such as sky does it as well they broadcast the liveTV signal on KZfaq as a live program you cannot watch that as well because it’s been broadcast the UK live by your area by the sky satellite

They can visit and swifty turn round and go back to where come from. The flea in the ear optional but I wouldn't advise it.

@ChilliJonCarne do 1 about broadband speeds, in some places you pay £37 monthly (broadband only, no calls, bt sports or other things, broadband only) sometimes I can't even load the bt app to do a speed test, but when I go through says 32 to the hub 21 to your device (5 meters next to the router😂) For the same amount of money you can get up to 75/150 mb/gb on mainland ( talking about islay, famous for the whisky)

I don't have any issue with the wording of "watching, recording or downloading programmes illegally". It's specifically referring to downloading from iPlayer, in the same way that the "watching, recording" but is specifically referring to live TV. In both cases, they're only talking about doing so in ways that are illegal without a licence.

Almost 3 years license free latest letter this week addressed to my name first time as always been to occupier previously………who in a household would get fined if multiple adults living there? Not concerned as no intention of ever paying or speaking to them

I have a notice on my door saying door knockers will need to pay £50.00 to speak to anyone inside property and £50.00 for EVERY 60 seconds they force me to listen to there crap. I have only had 1 letter in 18 months and no one knocks on my door😁😂😂

Maybe after 3 years I will finally get a visit when the Euros are on. Their investigation should be finished by now surely.

If you fill in the questionare regarding not needing a license.on line, whatever boxes you tick it says you need a license

Here is a new one for Tv Licensing (to me least) another "Official Notice" claiming I in breach of Communications Act 2003. This sound like I have broken the law in some way. I do not watch live TV, not even On Demand (even tho I legally could), therefore I don't need a TV License. It's still addressed to Legal Occupier not myself in person.

They can send as many letters as they want as they go straight to the bin and it’s costing them money to send em out . I’ve have been known to rip them up and post them back in their envelope to there address without a stamp costing them twice the postage as I do with most junk mail

Netflix actually has a 'download' section on the app

My only quibble is that it's worded in the way TV Licencing like: "legally required to have a TV licence if..." and "not paying for a licence while watching... could result in a fine." It puts the emphasis on not having a licence being the offence, which we all know isn't true. They way it should be worded is "It's illegal to watch or record live TV without a TV licence" and "Watching or recording live TV, or using BBC iPlayer without a TV licence could result in a fine." Small change, but it's more accurate and shifts the emphasis away from where TVL want it.

"Don't tell 'em your name Pyke"

Paid for TV licence for years and now it's all done on line. Received a letter last month telling me that i now have to go online to register my licence with the TV licensing people as they're not sending out licences any more. Sorry, i pay by direct debit so you should know that I've done so without having go waste my precious time confirming that fact.

I tried, in vane, to contact TV license people on the phone, so cancelled my direct debit, that got their attention! As I was living on a boat, the house was empty, I did get a refund, as we didn’t need a licence, not because of being on a boat, but because no watching anything live, nor IPlayer. We will never get a licence in the future, when we buy bricks and mortar in The Western Isles, quite happily not watching live etc and wonder if they will threaten’ us up there, or send the salesman round….. need to get them a ferry to find us fully compliant!

Paying by Direct Debit means you have paid six months in advance so if you cancel, assuming you no longer watch or record TV etc, ensure you ask for those six months to be refunded.

Birmingham Live have just run a BS article about companies risking fines for allowing staff to watch the footie or Olympics on TV in shared offices! 🤬

I occasionally watch live sports streams from Amazon Prime or Sky Go, so presumed I required a license. Someone suggested that if when you load the stream, you do it after it has started and click the watch from start button, not the watch live button, you arent watching a live stream and don't need a licence. Is this accurate?

May have changed now - it was long ago - when I cancelled my licence, which I paid monthly, I got a refund of a couple of months. Presumably as it only had a couple of months to go! Since then, lots of letters - until a year ago. On trying to be fair and kind, I went to the web-site to make a "No Licence Required" declaration, i could not find the "I don't need a license" option. Ok, how about the "The property is Empty" then? YES..... next Q "Until When?" ..... "01/01/2099" .... No more letters since, and presumably until then!

If their high-tech crime-busting detector vans truly work, why the need to send door-to-door salespeople? It is all they are and nothing more, "NO THANKS DONT NEED ONE BUT THANKS FOR CONFIRMING IT FOR ME" Shut the door job done.

I work on the principle of, it's for me to know and you too find out. It's for you to prove I need a licence not for me to prove I don't.

I do not hold a fishing licence and I do not go fishing. Could I be fined for being suspected of fishing?

Can someone explain this law please... Communications Act 2003, Section 363 (1)A television receiver must not be installed or used unless the installation and use of the receiver is authorised by a licence under this Part. (2)A person who installs or uses a television receiver in contravention of subsection (1) is guilty of an offence. So if you break point 1, you're guilty of an offence, so how do you NOT need a TV licence? I've been looking for answers on multiple channels but no one answers.

Freely is the new free service from the company responsible for Freeview and Freesat that will run alongside Freeview and Freesat for many more years as it will take many years for people to upgrade to Freely compatible TVs. However Freely merges live broadcast and streaming and this could mean more people required to have a TV Licence unless there is the option to opt out of live broadcasts.

3:33 All 4 is now called Channel 4. Just to add to the confusion.

Jon, I'd love to see you go through the cancellation form online with someone to see just how difficult they make it. It's not just a simple "cancel" button, oh no, it's multiple pages of veiled threats, requirements for ID and all sorts, they make it as difficult as possible to cancel it.

It's so easy to find out how many people have a licence in your area, just fill out tv licence online form at any address , if it says " there's already a TV licence at this address" you know they pay TV licence. If it let's you proceed to payment you know they havnt got a TV licence.

I'm from Canada and will be moving to the What about watching live streams on Facebook or other social media platforms on a tablet or android box?

I got the same letter as you did yesterday 😂😂😂

So, to be clear, can I watch live sport on the Discovery channel? I understand that I can't watch live tv or programs on the BBC channels.

Iv been sitting waiting on them for a year, first I got my title,then the occupier, then said they were investigating,then had 20 trees worth of paper saying there coming on certain dates, even after I phoned to say I didn't need one and wouldn't watch live TV if they gave me it for nothing, I'm certainly not funding there champagne 🍾🥂 life styles and their hate for our country, can't wait till they ring the doorbell cam, they will be told to do one, and the amount of people who are bullied into buying one because of the wording they are now saying even if you are on u tube you need one,iv been to my solicitor for harassment and putting the fear into myself who stays alone and is vulnerable, and got a lot of cheek from someone who could hardly string 2 English words together 💯🤡🌍

Illegally downloaded if you pay discovery+ your not illegally downloading so you don't need a TV licence.

I cancelled my tv licence in December 2023, but because of the Christmas holls they took a payment for January 2024, because I paid by direct debit, the licence is paid in advance so my licence is paid for up until the end of January 2025. They sent me 3 letters asking for payment, the last letter I received was to inform me that my tv licence has been cancelled. And no offer of a refund.

I find it archaic and somewhat embarrassing in a global sense that we're still in a situation where we can't engage with the TV licence salespeople without risking a closed court decision on what is termed 'illegal' or be able to prove we don't require a licence by showing browser history etc. I abide by the rules but I think they're utterly ridiculous, unclear and I hope we're getting closer to a point where someone who doesn't have a TV license isn't automatically presumed to be breaking the law and as a result constantly harassed. That said, 'hope springs eternal' and all that..

-Jon, and I am being serious, but at the same time not worried 😜 I had KZfaq on, watching random stuff as I do, when Marvel my Giant Russian Blue Cat jumped up onto my lap landing on my keyboard. He managed to switch the video I was enjoying "Thoughty 2" and put on a live UK TV channel as they were actually live. I realised in an instant but for about 10 seconds Marvel was watching live broadcast TV. No word of a lie. Could I be fined for that or would he? I have money I save up in an account for him as a personal insurance policy just in case sometime in the future he gets Ill. Can the BBC Fine my Cat Marvel ?

I just went on their website and put no to everything on the tv website and it still said I need a licence. So what can you do?? Nothing because they are robbers and want to take your money even if you live in a shed on top of a mountaintop what a joke

If a licence is required regardless of whatever channel you're watching then why don't the ''other channels'' receive a share of the fee?

To me it looks like they must have bugs in tv, as how do they know how people are watching

What does tv licence offer? I'll pay if they bring and install a dish or antenna, my max broadband speed is 32mb at £35 / month , takes me ages to download something, but what about camper vans, do they get a visit from the scarry guy? 😂

may 1st was my 5th anniversary of not having a license. havent watched 1 second of live tv or beeb crap in that time. so not a problem and for context, I'm scots.

So why doesn't the BBC simply require an account for its iPlayer which you can get when you pay for a licence? That way, anyone without a licence can't watch iPlayer. I'm not from the UK so this TV licensing business feels convoluted and archaic and appears to be a mechanism to give the TVL contractor grifters some revenue. The other thing is, if the BBC want licensing fees so badly, why don't they collect them themselves rather than outsourcing the function to a rent-seeking company?

I didn’t get a refund from two years ago I did put in for it

Licence Enforcers sent me an 'Are you free on 27th June?' in a plain brown envelope. Their intent is to visit me, but 'it may be another day.' Reason: we do not have a record of a TV licence at your address. Well, true enough, but my TV is unplugged, BBC and their rubbish programmes do not interest me at all. I don't have Sky, and I only watch Neflix, Prime and Disney on my laptop. So push off Enforcers, I don't need a licence.

You can't be fined or prosecuted if no law is broken. As long as we don't watch live broadcasts, we don't require a TV Licence. A TV Licence is needed if you want to watch live broadcast channels, live tournaments or live concerts broadcast from anywhere even on streaming platforms such as NOW, Amazon Prime, Disney+ or Netflix etc.

Do I need to tell them I don't need a TV licence or I can just ignore the letters?

do not worry Chilli those that read the Herald will have a licence majority of scots will read the Daily Record or The Sun do not bother about a licence in their 1000's

I never answer the door to anyone.

Got a new treating letter today say something about a 10 day time window

I cancelled my license and now I’m getting letters still to ask do i still need a license for my tv lol what do i need to tell these people any ideas ?

Isn't the phone service an automated service as well these days

I haven't had a TV for about Fifteen years , don't watch catch up stuff or live stuff . Basically just watch stuff on KZfaq . These idiots still send me letters about needing a license . I just bin them . No interest in the rubbish they put out for entertainment . I used to really like the David Attenborough stuff but I haven't watched that for years .

Can you cover the bailiff threats that occur if you stop your dd and don't tell tvl Akinita think they call themselves

They dont come any more..fine with me no letters.great😊

They have as much power as a bin man

Your allowed too download films etc... without tv lic