In message of 22 Mar, Chopt@aol.com wrote: > Surely the way to deal with this issue is for the BBC to put any > television material on a part of their website that one can only > access by paying a subscription equal to the licence fee (like > Ancestry.com). Any one signing up should be able to link the > subscription to a particular property and it would count in lieu of > a licence covering any conventional televisions on that property. > > That way nobody could avoid the licence fee, people who sometimes use > the internet and sometimes a conventional television would pay only > once and internet uses who had no television and did not use the > BBC restricted site would not have to pay. > > In my view, radio programmes should be on a freely available part of the > site as no licence is required to receive them. In my view TV programs should also be freely available. There should be no licence fees at all. Providing entertainment is not a responsibility or duty of government. The duty of government is to regulate, not to run. Allow the service providers to raise revenue in other ways. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org

Tim Powys-Lybbe Sent: 22 March 2005 08:19 > Allow the service providers to raise revenue in other ways. As long as they don't use adverts - I can't stand the things! By the way - is this genealogy?