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Mar 2nd, 2016, 3:40pm  
ITV News reports that in a keynote speech at the Oxford Media Convention, culture secretary John Whittingdale  is to close the iPlayer loophole, whereby the TV licence only applies to LIVE TV and not "Catch-up" TV.

ITV News says...

"The BBC estimates the iPlayer loophole will cost around £100 million a year by 2021 to 2022 unless it is closed.

Policing options include asking viewers to sign into iPlayer and monitoring whether the households accessing the service pay the licence fee."

A BBC News report is here.

Apparently this will not apply to Sky, Netflix. Amazon etc...
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Reply #1 - Mar 3rd, 2016, 9:05am  
This has got to be a code PLUS user name and password-otherwise Iplayer will become a prescription service with people wanting to pay that and DO WITHOUT their licence fee?
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