Comments on: When the knives come out for Jam… http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333 the digital home of andrew brown Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:52:45 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: ab http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333&cpage=1#comment-4956 ab Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:53:41 +0000 http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333#comment-4956 Just on this issue Kenneth - it didn't just cost the UK tax payer - it cost the TV licence payer - which is a bit of a double edged sword in my mind. I have a sister that doesn't have a TV - therefore doesn't pay a licence. She does have broadband though, so should she have wished, she could have looked at the BBC resources - yet she didn't pay for them. I on the other hand pay Sky for my television service. No pictures are received in my property by a conventional ariel, yet I still have to have a TV licence. It would be a really easy process for Sky to prevent my box from receiving BBC channels, or them handling the BBC <strike>tax</strike> licence fee (as they did when they introduced a broadband service by paying BT the line rental costs). If the choice was have my licence fee back, or have educational resources that anyone could use, then keep my money - I'd rather be educated than rich. Just on this issue Kenneth – it didn’t just cost the UK tax payer – it cost the TV licence payer – which is a bit of a double edged sword in my mind. I have a sister that doesn’t have a TV – therefore doesn’t pay a licence. She does have broadband though, so should she have wished, she could have looked at the BBC resources – yet she didn’t pay for them.

I on the other hand pay Sky for my television service. No pictures are received in my property by a conventional ariel, yet I still have to have a TV licence. It would be a really easy process for Sky to prevent my box from receiving BBC channels, or them handling the BBC tax licence fee (as they did when they introduced a broadband service by paying BT the line rental costs).

If the choice was have my licence fee back, or have educational resources that anyone could use, then keep my money – I’d rather be educated than rich.

]]> By: Kenneth McLaughlin http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333&cpage=1#comment-4941 Kenneth McLaughlin Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:56:45 +0000 http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333#comment-4941 Whilst I agree that this resource should stay in the public domain there is one issue I would like to comment on. BBC Jam is not a free resource it cost the UK tax payers over £150 million. As I tax payer I want it back! Whilst I agree that this resource should stay in the public domain there is one issue I would like to comment on. BBC Jam is not a free resource it cost the UK tax payers over £150 million. As I tax payer I want it back!

]]> By: marlyn.moffat » I just get annoyed! http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333&cpage=1#comment-4936 marlyn.moffat » I just get annoyed! Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:28:55 +0000 http://www.whereisab.co.uk/blog/?p=333#comment-4936 [...] Ministers North and South.  Got my links to do so from John Connel’s blog and got that from Andrew. I can’t help thinking that we have a commercialism versus progress thing with this. And [...] [...] Ministers North and South.  Got my links to do so from John Connel’s blog and got that from Andrew. I can’t help thinking that we have a commercialism versus progress thing with this. And [...]

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