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> -----Original Message----- > From: get_iplayer [mailto:get_iplayer-boun...@lists.infradead.org]On > Behalf Of Andy Gascoigne > Sent: 14 May 2016 20:11 > Cc: get_iplayer > Subject: Re: BBC iPlayer viewers now need a TV licence to > watch to catch > up with their favourite shows > > To be honest I am quite fed up with people who seem to think > that they have a right to watch BBC programmes "free". To be equally honest, I am quite fed up with people who seem to think that they have a right to preach to others. No system of funding anything is perfectly just. You win some, you lose some. In common with many who are fortunate enough to reach my age, I have survived various economic injustices. Normally I don't choose to discuss these, partly because I suspect many of us could say the same, but when someone gets on their high arse, sorry horse, and preaches at me, perhaps it becomes time to see the wider context. So, as just one example, I will mention legislation that once decreed I should contribute to local government four times as much as formerly at a time when my income halved from what it had been formerly, and that a wealthy woman living alone in a large mansion contributed to local government less than the gardner she employed to maintain the grounds. This legislation proved so controversial and unworkable that it brought down the then Prime Minister, and was soon revoked and replaced with a slightly fairer system, but, needless to say, none of its victims such as myself were ever repayed even a small fraction of the extortionate sums that we'd had no choice but to pay. The iPlayer loophole is just that, a loophole, which, quite rightly, is to be closed, but until it is I consider that taking advantage of it repays me some of what I've lost through previous injustices. Of course, if your magic moral fairies could repay me for all that I've lost through previous injustices such as the one I've described, I would now be richer, and thereby better able to afford not only the licence fee, but also the receiving equipment that would make it a legal necessity for me to pay it even under current law. But, as things stand your moral fairies are nowhere to be seen, I am quite poor, my house needs urgent repairs, and I can't afford and don't have any equipment that requires me to pay the licence fee, so I don't pay it. I will when I am required to do so by law. Doubtless the above will displease you, and maybe others, but I care not. Those who see the world only in black and white tend sooner or later to come a cropper because of their limited vision and understanding. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
