Actually the law in question also says that if the device only allows one to stream with great technical effort, you don't have to pay this tax (source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/79171 [german]) On a different note I'd like to mention that this law originates from the idea that german public media is state financed under the condition that it covers topics which might not be popular enough to show up in private media otherwise. So what this law implies is that if you have the technical possibility to receive the content that public media offers to everybody you will do so.
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Actually the law in question also says that if the device only allows one to stream with great technical effort, you don't have to pay this tax (source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/79171 [german]) On a different note I'd like to mention that this law originates from the idea that german public media is state financed under the condition that it covers topics which might not be popular enough to show up in private media otherwise. So what this law implies is that if you have the technical possibility to receive the content that public media offers to everybody you will do so.