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Re: [LUG] get_iplayer
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] get_iplayer
- From: Rhia Knowles <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:33:23 -0700
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You guys will love this lovely loophole I discovered whilst away at a residential college a couple of years back:
If you have a digital TV tuner and a laptop, and only use the tuner when it is running on batteries, it doesnt need a license. Dont know if that was just for students but i sure found it interesting.
The license counts installed as plugged into the mains. I checked and confirmed this with the TV licensing people themselves. I even said 'Look, I'm learning disabled, so I sometimes misread things, so I'm just clarifying this the way I read it, my laptop doesnt need the liscence to watch TV....and read out the clause' and the guy agreed with my reading.
Unfortunately i wasnt able to check the feasability of this, as the area the college was in wasnt a digital area at the time.
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