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British PC Tax to Replace TV License?

Posted by Zonk on from the look-for-this-soon-near-you dept.

caffeination writes "Here in Britain, anything capable of receiving live or virtually live broadcasts is considered TV receiving equipment. Because the detector vans can't actually 'catch' people watching such broadcasts on their computers, the BBC is proposing a blanket tax on PCs instead. They received several thousand responses to this green paper, ranging from the insightful to the unprintable."

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  1. Re:My Rights??!! Online??!! by heinousjay · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Poor coward. If you made the same bitch from a European perspective, you'd be +5, Insightful. Such is the way of the self-loathing intellectual elite, I suppose.

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