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[PSUs]| Monday 12th June 2006 |
Questions raised over TV licence for Net-casts
12:50PM, Monday 12th June 2006
Computer users who take advantage of the BBC's World Cup streams are liable for a stiff penalty if they do not have a valid TV licence.
The TV Licensing authority warned businesses that allow employees to keep up-to-date with games via the Internet must ensure that they have a licence or face fines of up to £1,000.
Only one licence is required to cover all broadcasts to a single property, so the paid-up have nothing to fear.
However an Internet consultant has challenged TV Licensing's claim that PC users require a licence.
'It would appear actually reading the legislation rather than believing what we are being told that a pure internet feed not involving a tuner and received by a computer IS NOT covered by the regulations and therefore you do not need a TV licence to receive it,' said Warren Swaine.
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