EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video and Netflix subscribers already want a TV licence below these circumstances.
Amazon Prime Video viewers could possibly be hit with a £1,000 superb (Picture: Getty)
Information has damaged at present (Tuesday) that households throughout the UK could possibly be compelled to pay for a £180 TV licence so as to watch Amazon Prime and Netflix.
The Specific has at present reported how new plans could possibly be drawn up for all streaming subscribers akin to those that watch Netflix or Amazon Prime Video in a radical shake up of BBC funding.
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However there are already some circumstances wherein Netflix, Amazon Prime and even YouTube viewers must pay for a TV licence or face fines and prosecution from TV Licensing.
Just lately, Amazon Prime has launched a collection of dwell sports activities broadcasts, together with protection of the Champions League. Amazon Prime Video additionally has dwell tennis and UFC fights in addition to rugby and wresling.
What’s extra, Amazon Prime Video now has a whole ‘Reside TV’ part, which provides channels like Hell’s Kitchen which, as you would possibly count on, provides again to again episodes of Gordon Ramsay’s cooking programme, in addition to a Mr Bean Channel, CNN, Purple Bull TV, EuroNews and all types of different hidden gems.
Netflix, too, has branched out into dwell broadcast, together with boxing, wrestling and live shows, and comprises a Reside Occasions part. Whereas YouTube, after all, additionally provides dwell streams and broadcasts of all the things from gaming content material to information, sports activities and music.
Sadly, TV licence guidelines clarify that you just do in truth want a TV licence to look at any of this dwell content material or these subscription providers’ occasions and channels as they’re being broadcast (i.e. not on catch up).
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TV Licensing says in its on-line steering: “In case you’re watching TV displaying dwell on Amazon Prime, you might want to be coated by a TV licence. You don’t want a TV licence should you’re solely watching on demand programmes on Amazon Prime.
“You don’t want a TV licence to look at on demand programmes on Disney Plus.
“If you’re watching a TV programme dwell on YouTube, you might want to be coated by a TV licence.
“A licence just isn’t required to view person generated content material, clips and movies on YouTube. This consists of dwell streamed content material that isn’t a part of a tv broadcast. Or being broadcast on the similar time by different means.”
TV Licensing goes on to warn: “You possibly can be prosecuted if we discover that you’ve got been watching, recording or downloading programmes illegally. The utmost penalty is a £1,000 superb plus any authorized prices and/or compensation you could be ordered to pay. The utmost superb is £2,000 in Guernsey.
“We’ve got a database of roughly 31 million licensed and unlicensed addresses. This tells us in case your deal with has a TV licence.
“All our visiting officers have entry to this database. This implies they’ll test when you have a licence or not.
“In case you inform us that you do not want a TV licence, our officers should go to you to substantiate this.
“We even have a fleet of detector vans that may detect the usage of TV receiving gear at particularly focused addresses inside minutes.”
A TV licence is a authorized requirement should you do any of those:
watch or document dwell TV on any channel by way of any TV service (akin to Sky, Virgin, Freeview, Freesat)
watch dwell content material on streaming providers (e.g. ITVX, Channel 4, YouTube, Amazon Prime Video, Now, Sky Go)
use BBC iPlayer in any respect
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