They will change whatever it takes to keep biased AlJabeeba cash cow running. Remember when Satellite first arrived? No TV license needed, but that was soon changed. Just like the fake TV detector van adverts years ago on TV. There were a few vans for show, but they were empty!
Admitted by the BBC. It is down to enforcement officers that have to catch you watching LIVE TV, unless you are silly enough to offer them the information. Sorry about the publication!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2445153/Are-...

Edited by professor973 (Fri 24-Jan-14 11:37:21)

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Dynamic IP addresses don't avoid "detection", e.g. p2p lawsuits can (and are) easily enough be issued to dynamic IP customers.

Yes- retrospectively� which was my point. They really need a "live" way of doing it.

Or just require the user to input their TV licence number into the website when watching live iPlayer.

(edit: might not work if they are issued incrementally)

I hadn't thought of that� probably not difficult to impersonate but might be effective enough for most purposes.

WRONG - They cannot detect TV viewing.

In reply to a post by professor973:

WRONG - They cannot detect TV viewing.

That's what he said

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Dynamic IP addresses don't avoid "detection", e.g. p2p lawsuits can (and are) easily enough be issued to dynamic IP customers.

Yes- retrospectively� which was my point. They really need a "live" way of doing it.

Having a static IP address doesn't mean the BBC can get your name and address in real-time though.

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by professor973:

WRONG - They cannot detect TV viewing.

That's what he said

Thank you!

Seems we both have senior moments - A look above seems to show you replied to me instead of Oliver341 though could be the site. lol

Edited by professor973 (Fri 24-Jan-14 11:43:33)

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Having a static IP address doesn't mean the BBC can get your name and address in real-time though.

I didn't mean to imply that it did, but it's more feasible than with a dynamic IP!

At the very least a static IP means that they can block your later attempts

In reply to a post by professor973:

A look above seems to show you replied to me instead of Oliver341 though could be the site. lol

Nope- I've only made one reply to you, that went where it was intended and included a quote.

Check the [re: <username>] links in the headers, not the sequence in flat mode.

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

Having a static IP address doesn't mean the BBC can get your name and address in real-time though.

I didn't mean to imply that it did, but it's more feasible than with a dynamic IP!

At the very least a static IP means that they can block your later attempts

In the initial instance it would take just as long to obtain the name & address. I also don't think they can assume the static IP address is never re-assigned to a new customer and so would have to be re-checked regularly.

I can only see this being done with a live-checking API to the ISPs, and that would work just as well with dynamic IPs as static ones assuming the ISPs systems are up to scratch (which they should be, to make sure p2p lawsuits go to the right person).