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A comment on Letters from BBC Television Licensing.

Re:Letters from BBC Television Licensing by mattl on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @05:21PM (#43019119)
The BBC claims and has claimed for a long time that they have vans that can detect TV viewing.

https://youtu.be/Vv2ZqZmC7u0?si=l7PZepS8E5TcpJFh

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Re:Letters from BBC Television Licensing by w14 on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @06:38AM (#43024330)
I agree with this article that it's probably fake news [0]. It's also mostly moot now anyway, since if TV service is provided via Sky or Virgin, you're bang to rights. Same if you use BBC iPlayer, which is very good at detecting VPN use and so its very hard to hide your real IP address.

[0] - https://www.agetimes.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/tv-detector...

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