Warnung vor TV-Lizenzen: Netflix und Disney+ weigern sich, bei der Überarbeitung der BBC eine Rolle bei der Durchsetzung der Gebühren zu spielen

Maybe they should just make the bbc a subscription service if it has value to its customers it will survive.

This is the dumbest take Ive ever heard from Disney and Netflix.

If they are included in tv licence requirement it changes nothing for them.

They don’t have to collect money they will just do what the BBC iPlayer does. Which is have a pop up before loading which says you got a tv licence yes no.

If Netflix is going to grass me up then it’s back to the high seas I go. There’s probably a decent chunk of people who’ll do the same, so it’s in their interests to oppose it. Still, same as every other bill or whatever, it’s going to be condemned by pundits, strongly opposed by various consumer organisations, and it might even get a change.org petition, but ultimately it’ll change nothing because if they’ve decided that’s what’s happening then that’s what’s happening regardless of how many people are against it and how many times it’s very clearly shown to be a terrible idea.

The BBC is great, but they really do themselves no favours at all. Constantly shooting themselves in their own foot.

The BBC licence fee is a compulsory charge on every household that owns a television or uses iPlayer, regardless of whether they watch a single second of BBC content. That model made sense when the BBC had a broadcast monopoly. It has no justification now.

Every major streaming service runs on subscriptions. You pay for what you use. The BBC should work the same way.

The corporation’s own salary disclosures show presenters earning hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions, of pounds a year from public money. People who have no interest in that content have no way to opt out. That is taxation without consent.

The BBC’s Royal Charter requires editorial impartiality. Repeated polling and academic research have found consistent skews in its coverage of immigration, climate policy and electoral politics. Viewers who recognise that bias are currently forced to fund it anyway.

A subscription model fixes all of this. People who want BBC content pay for it. People who don’t, don’t. The corporation would face real market pressure to produce things audiences actually want, for the first time in its history. And the millions of people who resent the licence fee would finally be free of it.

The licence fee survives because it suits the Treasury and suits the BBC. That is the entire argument for keeping it. It is not a good one.

I exclusively use streaming sites. There must be a BBC show I’m interested in once a year maximum that I’m happy to live without. If the BBC truly was an impartial, unbiased, „for all“ entity then I’d gladly pay for it but it no longer serves that function and I do not wish to fund it.

At some point watching anything will be impossible. Like I get it, the BBC needs funding or whatever, but for Gods sake it’s getting ridiculous.