lmao@broadcasting fee

lol. what's that all about?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_Sweden

better than our nazi-version.

Where you have to pay it if you have a TV in your basement or just for owning a pc ...

i pay for TV too. only shit channels are free.

Completely different :)

Most channels are free, except for pay tv. But to receive most of the channels, you either have to pay for cable or buy a satellite dish or digital tv receiver.


The stuff we are taling about if kind of a tax. Everyone has to pay it for his "household" if he simply owns a radio or a TV or a computer, or as they say: "The ability to receive."

So, if you don't have a radio, nor a computer but have your grandma's old black and white TV hiddin in a box in the basement, you have to pay 15 € per month.

oh. it's a product service over here. you pay for it only if you want to... but pretty much everyone does i guess.

as I said, we also pay to have a "normal" tv connection, this fee is just extra and the money goes straight to the public channels who burn it on whatever they want.
And you have to pay, even if you never ever watch their programs and just want to see DVDs on your TV.
The ysay you "could" receive it.

Now, they started offering a few streams and all of a sudden people who don't have a radio or TV, should pay for owning a pc, cause they "could" watch those streams.

It's simply insane.

is the content given to you by the channels not worth it? we have the same license fee in the UK and i'd argue that the BBC puts out enough high quality content to make it worth it.

no it isn't. Nothing has nearly the quality of the BBC documentaries. Hell, they even produce shitty daily soaps...

And it most certainly wasn't when I was a student with 600€ per month and they demanded 15€, and me never watching.

tatort!

don't like it, never watch it.

15€ - are you kidding?

ofcourse it sucks... but i watch tagesschau regularly, tatort is fine, and beckman/kerner is cool aswell

eurgh.

still doesn't justify 15€.

the only thing i use is the online content and they managed to not allow focus on that. sucks big time
but i am not paying anyway :D

me neither :D

i just did /ignore when the letter arrived, that was back in 2006

It's wrong to force people to pay for TV no matter how you look at it. I don't give a fuck how good the BBC is, their success shouldn't be guaranteed by law for fucks sake.

so they come and check all your rooms to see if you're hiding a TV or a PC? wow, i should remake the opening scene of Inglourious Basterds with either of these objects hidden below floorboards :D

yes, they actually do.

But you don't have to open the door. So they actually try to trick into opening. Or admitting that you were just watching TV.
They also send oppresive letters.

Best example is the BBC, these Euro countries dunno how to do proper TV-licensing ;DDDD

In SA they are going to stop issuing TV licenses and rather increase taxes, due to most of the population living in shacks and having no formal address that can be charged to them.

(We have this really obscure way of doing things where instead of actually building houses for people, we just supplied water and electricity to the shacks.)

Where you have to pay it if you have a TV in your basement or just for owning a pc ...

it's the same here with the TV set, but checking for a PC? WTF?

I have one in my car, the tv guy was insisting on charging me subscription for it

There was this guy here who had an old tv filled with water that he used as an aquarium, he had to pay the license fee. :|

win.

here he wouldn't have to pay if he has a certificate that says the antenna has been removed.

Schools do that, so they don't have to pay the monthly fee for their TVs. Only costs them 100€, or so, for the mechanic...

I am not kidding.

we pay per household 1 tv is the same as having 100 tvs. If you use a computer to steram via their website they make you pay aswell, and you can get some hefty life destroying fines from it.

same here, 1 TV per household, if you don't have that 1 computer per household or 1 radio per household.
Normal roommates are considered to have a household each (but they usually don't ask again if you pay for one radio for the entire appartment).

That caused two (male) friends of mine to declared to be a unmarried couple, so they only had to pay one :P


The fines here aren't that high, afaik, my sister "only" had to pay a year's worth of fees.

remember when there were talk about adding the cost of the television license to anyone who had internet because SVT had their shows on their homepage?

good times sweden.

We have same here in finland, its called: Media-fee.

And reason is "Because ppl have internets and can watch movies & TV-Shows there and not from our crappy channel where nothing comes"

And this awesome new thing should be put in motion in 2012

we actually did that...

laugh to the mao m8, laugh to the mao

Cooller!:P

you should have used the bath tub picture

http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1265563450906RA31

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http://en.tackfilm.se/?id=1265576009208RA43

\o/

get a motorhome and watch tv, things are better to kick back in then a garage, so idle time isnt wasted, everything about british ones are so crap, just owning does a mans life justice

the wife takes the car, man takes the motorhome