The tv license issue here in Norway is worse... :-(
Here you automaticly have to pay even if you do not watch tv at all and the people selling tvs, vcrs and such are forced to send your name and such to the state owned tv company. The worst part is that they now want to extend this license onto computers and cell phones because you "can" stream tv over internet or 3g phones. And do you think the internet streams are free for those who pay the licenses?? hell no... You will have to pay a subscription to be able to use it.
The analog tv signals will also be cut off soon and be replaced with dvb-t through a customized mpeg4 decoder. This means it wont be possible to recieve tv anymore without buying an additional decoder and this will cost money too. But that does not mean that we dont need to pay a tv license even if we dont own this decoder. :crazy:
So we are forced to pay this license even if we do not own equipment capable of recieving tv signals from the nazi state owned tv channels.
It wont be easy to get the license terminated even if you sell your tv later on... They have such power that they can do whatever the hell they want.
Oh and when tvs get built in dvb-t tuners, it will still not work as they only let you use their approved decoder.
