I almost feel bad about having left when I see posts like this. But there are no jobs at home, so the tradition of emigration continues. I don't remember /. being so damn racist though, jeez guys. Lucky charms and stupid drunkard jokes are so playschool.

Ohh, the irony.

They generally send most unlicensed properties(especially in student-heavy areas, as students tend to be bad at paying for licenses/stupid enough to pay when they don't need to) a series of increasingly unfriendly letters suggesting they get a license, as well as the occasional 'enforcement officer' who looks disturbingly like a police officer. I think you can be fined for watching TV without a license, but how they'd prove it I have no idea.

I've never heard of a phone contract in the UK that limits incoming minutes... He is right that they tend to be extremely suspicious of people claiming not to need a license though. When I was a student I had a TV for playing games and watching DVDs on, and got harassed on the regular by the TV licensing heavies. And by heavies, I mean they literally sent a huge enforcement officer to our door once, demanding to be let in to inspect our property. I politely told him to fuck off because he had no right of entry and I had informed them time and again that we were within our rights not to have a license. We still got the threatening letters after that, but no more unfriendly faces at the door.

"live broadcast television transmissions" You can own a TV and not pay the license fee, so long as you're not watching live TV on it or any other device in your home.

Runescape does, and I believe EVE technically does also.

so did I, and I found it very straightforward.