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Do you need a tv licence if you cancel irish stations from SKy digital

  • 10-07-2010 4:55pm
    #1
    dwsl280
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 42 ✭


    Just noticed that you can cancel all of the irish channels from your Sky digital subscription as this is a bonus add on.

    If you cancelled the option would you still need to pay the tv licence or are you paying for the privelage of owning a TV?


Comments

  • #2
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    If it was that simple no one would be paying for a tv license.


  • #3
    Skinback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 107 ✭✭Skinback


    dwsl280 wrote: »
    Just noticed that you can cancel all of the irish channels from your Sky digital subscription as this is a bonus add on.

    If you cancelled the option would you still need to pay the tv licence or are you paying for the privelage of owning a TV?

    The licence is for having a telly.


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055919759

    TV licence pre-dates Irish TV here. It doesn't matter even if you only watch Cuban TV on a Laptop screen via a Satellite dish.


  • #5
    dlambirl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭dlambirl


    You dont pay your TV licence to recieve RTE - you pay your TV licence because you have a TV. Even if you dont use it...


  • #6
    dmeehan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,457 ✭✭✭dmeehan


    You pay your TV Licence to have equipment capable of receiving a tv (or radio) broadcast.

    You also pay you licence fee so RTE can show your favourite programs at 2.30am on a Tuesday etc. (sorry for sneaking in a mini-rant there)


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  • #7
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    dmeehan wrote: »
    ... You also pay you licence fee so RTE can show your favourite programs at 2.30am on a Tuesday etc. (sorry for sneaking in a mini-rant there)
    Rubbish.

    Stay exiled in Kerry and stop tryin' to rob West Cork. I'm watchin' ye, Jackie Really Gay and the rest of ye. :p


  • #8
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Is anyone else not amazed at how ludicrous the whole idea of a tv "licence" is, especially in this day and age? What if you break your tv, do you still need a licence?

    It would be like needing to pay over a 100 euro a year for a "computer licence" or face a criminal prosecution, and the 100 euro a year would be used for the RTE website, which they would throw millions at in stupid ways every year.

    Remember those advertisements about going to jail if you don't pay your tv licence? And how about the poor children, seeing their father going to jail and how humiliating and terrible an experience it was??? What a ****ing joke.

    If the government oppresses and hurts its people, then surely that is the GOVERNMENT'S shame and not the people's shame??? I would gladly break the law if I felt it was an unjust law, I would feel it would was my responsibility. We should be ashamed because the government came and brought us to court and made us pay a fine? You'd have to wonder where people that retarded come from.

    And no, trying to make fun of people who don't have a tv licence is not clever or funny in any way.


  • #9
    mathepac
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭mathepac


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    ... What if you break your tv, do you still need a licence? ...
    If your fire-arm (rifle, shotgun, etc.) is locked away in your gun-safe do you still need a licence (fire-arms certificate)? If your dog is asleep in his kennel do you still need a dog-licence?


  • #10
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    mathepac wrote: »
    If your fire-arm (rifle, shotgun, etc.) is locked away in your gun-safe do you still need a licence (fire-arms certificate)? If your dog is asleep in his kennel do you still need a dog-licence?

    The difference is that those are dangerous items and their mis-use can cause death or terrible injury or suffering to people or animals (including the dog that you have to have a licence for). When's the last time you heard of the mis-use of a tv seriously causing damage to others? Apart from when Pat Kenny or some other RTE programme is on I mean...


  • #11
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    It would be like needing to pay over a 100 euro a year for a "computer licence" or face a criminal prosecution.

    Shh, Cowan or Lenihan might be reading this.


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  • #12
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    SuperInfinity wrote: »
    The difference is that those are dangerous items and their mis-use can cause death or terrible injury or suffering to people or animals (including the dog that you have to have a licence for).

    Ah Ok. So having a licence makes them less dangerous so...


  • #13
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Fuzzy Clam wrote: »
    Ah Ok. So having a licence makes them less dangerous so...

    No, it does not mean that. It means that people won't be able to get them as easily, just like a car licence where you can't just sit in and drive. There's at least a theory behind having a licence for those things, especially with the dog because you're adopting a living animal. Having a licence for a tv is a totally different thing because you can't abuse a tv and you can't use a tv in a dangerous way. Having a licence should be for things like driving a car. Would you say "making people have a driver's licence makes driving less dangerous" in a sarcastic way? Of course not, so your sarcastic reply doesn't work.

    If the government wasn't so useless and incompetent, I would actually go further and say you should have to have a licence to have a child, or at least a second or third child. Show you can look after it and then you can have one. Otherwise the state and others will end up looking after it, the world will be hopelessly overpopulated etc.


  • #14
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,154 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    SuperInfinity wrote: »

    There's at least a theory behind having a licence for those things, especially with the dog because you're adopting a living animal.

    You do not need a licence for a cat, so there's your theory gone for having a dog. The TV licence is a tax. It funds RTE public broadcasting. Without it, we would have three TV3's. If it prevents that, it is cheap.


  • #15
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Since Car/Dog/Gun licence analogies are being thrown about freely here.

    I dont have a dog so I dont have a dog licence
    I dont have a gun so I dont have a gun licence

    Strange thing is Ive never had threatening letters/people calling to my door from the dog/gun licensing agencies demanding to see my licence/insisting on being allowed entry to my (private ?) home/inferring that im a liar/generally harassing me

    Perhaps they regard me as innocent until proven guilty ?

    As for the other lot -perhaps its time I got myself a gun :eek:


  • #16
    SuperInfinity
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,449 ✭✭✭SuperInfinity


    Sam Russell wrote: »
    You do not need a licence for a cat, so there's your theory gone for having a dog. The TV licence is a tax. It funds RTE public broadcasting. Without it, we would have three TV3's. If it prevents that, it is cheap.

    No, there isn't my "theory gone for having a dog". Christ, some people around these boards are so ****ing stupid.


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