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Originally Posted by smudgie

I am quite happy to pay the license fee..lovely to watch a programme without adverts.

TV is going in the direction of "on demand" now though, most broadcast television will be a thing of the past soon enough. Services like Netflix are now making their own original shows that are of brilliant quality, available more conveniently whenever you want to watch them, and are not interrupted with ads.

I know you pay a subscription fee for services like that, too... But for one, they are cheaper than the license fee, and for two, the point is that you have a choice. You can subscribe to services that have things that you want, or nothing at all. If you stop paying, you lose the service. You aren't hounded and made to feel like a criminal.