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		ender89 on Jan 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence f... The craziest part of this is that in the UK you need to pay a fee to pick up publicly broadcasted unencrypted television signals. I wonder what the hell is the basis of this "fee"?

TazeTSchnitzel on Jan 16, 2015 [–]

The basis is that those signals must be paid for somehow.

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