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Originally Posted by Tealeaf
Not quite, Steeljack. if your house is a public one and you happen to have a license to sell intoxicating liqour and you then decide to relay a Sky TV footy match down into the public bar without a seperate payment to the aforementioned, then you are suject to a fine of £5000pds and/or a term of imprisonment. Alternatively - and despite this country being a member of the so called EU - if you decide to tune in to one of the European Sky-linked channels to receive the game, you are also subject to the same penalty.
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OK , see your point about "stealing" cable and thats fair enough , but the point I was trying to make is that every TV owning household in the UK is forced under threat of court action to puchase a TV Licence to support the BBC . to my mind thats as much of a monoply as what they 'accuse' Murdoch of having