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BBC Episodes Legally Available Via Peer To Peer
Kript writes "According to the BBC they are going to make a number of their shows available on the Azureus network. A number of old favorites will be available such as Red Dwarf, Doctor Who and even Little Britain."
I live in a constitutional monarchy and a Commonwealth Realm, with Queen Elizabeth II as the reigning monarch. As such, she is our head of state as much as she is yours. Since the BBC derives its charter through her authority, and since her authority extends to my country, I expect the BBC to deliver good British TV to this side of the pond as well.
We could send you episodes of Corner Gas, Holmes on Homes, and Anne of Green Gables, if you wish.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
what the hell is a TV license?
It's an initiative geared to solving the problem of stray televisions wandering the streets. Apparently they cause a lot of traffic congestion, that's why you have to pay to drive in downtown London. They also like to pee on some guy named Lou. Weirdos.
its the bbc website. i'm glad they use british english. Can you please correct all your american websites that can't spell colour.
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Somebody just made it to Santa's naughty list.
My dad had a long running war of letters with the licensing authority because they didn't do their research. My grandmother how lived in the house bought the TV license under her name. My dad rented the TV. At some point they did a cross check and found that while my dad was responsible for have a TV there was no TV license in his name.
They sent him a form letter. He checked that we had a TV license and ignored it.
They send him a follow up form letter with the section about really needing a TV license circled. He wrote "Thats correct" and send it back to the sender.
They sent him a more strongly worded letter. The section about legal action was circled and marked "Please read". He checkmarked it, wrote "have read" and sent it back to them.
They then sent him a letter from a lawyer, full of legalese. He was writing "do your worst" on this when my mum caught him and took the letter away and made a phone call to sort it out.
He was all prepared to have them drag him into court and he would have taken my grandmother out to the town for a day out, taken her into the court and made her produce the license, then pointed out that the code (at the time) said "licensed at this address". They had never checked to see if the address was licensed.
My current favorite is Catherine Tate. Yes, she's all over Youtube
What a fucking liberty!!!