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Canada

Here in Canada we all get taxed for CBC, including people with no TV or radio.

What I have found with ex-pats is they left somewhere and feel free to criticise it and give these as reasons they are glad they left. They also ignore similar issues in their new nation or ignore other aspects of their new nation. Arguing that they are not responsible for that as an ex-pat.

Not labelling all expats like this but the vocal ones tend to be like this.

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Satellite TV company arranges to "brick" pirate cards across the US days before the Superbowl: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jan-27-mn-17728... https://blog.codinghorror.com/revisiting-the-black-sunday-ha...

huh .. but the Superbowl is always on a broadcast network too, so people could always just get out the ole rabbit ears (unless they had really bad signal from their local state)

Satellite is most popular where cable does not exist which also tends to be the places with access to the fewest networks.

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> NZ is probably best place in the world. Unless you, say, like to travel, or want to live in a place with people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

> want to live in a place with people from a wide variety of backgrounds Our largest city is also our most diverse. > Auckland is one of the world's most culturally diverse cities with the fourth most foreign-born population, an international study has found. > With 39 per cent of its population born overseas, the city is revealed to be more diverse than Sydney, Los Angeles, London and even New York. https://www.nzhe…

(Grew up in Auckland, live in London.) IMO it takes some pretty incredible redefinitions of the word "diverse" to get Auckland to be more diverse than London.

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It’s not incorrect. Netflix and Amazon are not live TV. (Perhaps you missed the “etc” after BBC?)

You claimed: "this only applies to television that is paid for by the license [...]" That is incorrect. It doesn't matter whether the content was paid for by the licence or not. If you are watching live TV, you need a licence.

Please provide an example of a live television channel in the UK that has not received any funds from the licence fee. To my knowledge, even small local channels receive funding which is directly traceable to the licence fee, though of course the BBC gets the lion's share.

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Which content you’re watching isn’t actually relevant, it’s where you are getting the content from. I could be watching a programme via an on-demand service at the same time as it’s shown on live TV, and I still wouldn’t need a license.

If what you are watching is live TV, it doesn't matter what device or service you use to watch it. It doesn't matter if you're streaming it, watching it via a service like All 4, ITV Hub, etc. If it is live TV, you need a licence. See: https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/L...

I specifically used the word on-demand, which is not live TV...
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