Will Irish TV licence cover the Net?
p2pnet news view | TV:- Ireland’s draft broadcasting bill will extend TV licence fee payments to cover Net access, “and it’s soon set to become law,” says HowToDoItAll.
“Even devices capable of picking up YouTube appear to be included in the Broadcasting Act 2009’s definition of ‘television’,” says the story.
And that, it quotes the draft as saying, would be »»»
… any electronic apparatus capable of receiving and exhibiting television broadcasting services broadcast for general reception (whether or not its use for that purpose is dependent on the use of anything else in conjunction with it) and any software or assembly comprising such apparatus and other apparatus.
Fo the moment, punters don’t need a TV licence to, “watch online video content in the UK (except when a programme is being simulcast on both TV and the web) – but that could change,” says the story, adding:
“Last month the BBC Internet Blog said that if, in the future, ’some people stopped receiving live broadcasts at all, stopped paying their licence fee, but continued to consume television programmes, solely on-demand’ then they would consider having the Government extend its TV licence fee to cover Internet access too.”
HowToDoItAll - Ireland on the verge of extending TV licence to cover Internet, May 12, 2009
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