Errr or not.
I'm a Norwegian and I've hated the NRK/Norwegian broadcast licensing fee for years. I own a TV that is only used on my computer, no signal or cable hooked up to it except a monitorcable for my PC and I still have to pay around 330 dollars a year for a channel I never watch, that has the shittiest, most outdated and conservative crap. Luckily new legislation passed by the cultural minister puts my usage (TV as monitor) as an exception and I no longer have to pay it but God has that taken long to get around to fix.
Funny shit is for years I did have my tv hooked to cable but as I was registered as a legal resident of my parents house I did not have to pay the licensing fee. Thank God for the nice guys in 0tv and other groups putting out high quality american TV shows on the net so I can watch them on my 50" TV hooked to a computer a year before my country would even consider buying them =)
I wouldn't actually mind paying 330 or even 500 dollars a year for a service that let me get any TV show I wanted to my computer =)
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Errr or not. I'm a Norwegian and I've hated the NRK/Norwegian broadcast licensing fee for years. I own a TV that is only used on my computer, no signal or cable hooked up to it except a monitorcable for my PC and I still have to pay around 330 dollars a year for a channel I never watch, that has the shittiest, most outdated and conservative crap. Luckily new legislation passed by the cultural minister puts my usage (TV as monitor) as an exception and I no longer have to pay it but God has that taken long to get around to fix. Funny shit is for years I did have my tv hooked to cable but as I was registered as a legal resident of my parents house I did not have to pay the licensing fee. Thank God for the nice guys in 0tv and other groups putting out high quality american TV shows on the net so I can watch them on my 50" TV hooked to a computer a year before my country would even consider buying them =) I wouldn't actually mind paying 330 or even 500 dollars a year for a service that let me get any TV show I wanted to my computer =)