25-10-12, 10:45 AM
(25-10-12, 12:07 AM)monkeyb0b link Wrote: ... I thought you had to have a license to stream tv over the internet, whether it be live or on-demand? been a while since I read up about itSurprisingly that's not the case. So long as you don't watch (or record) programmes from any broadcaster as they are transmitted, then you don't need a TV licence.
So you can watch recorded material on-line, even BBC output on iPlayer. But now iPlayer also carries live broadcast material... for which you do, in theory, need a licence. The BBC will eventually need to find a way of fixing that loophole, maybe by linking a TV licence number to an IP address, as more and more people move to watching TV over their broadband connection.