stackyFACTSIn the UK, looking at a screen in your own living room is a taxable privilege. Anyone watching live broadcasts must pay an annual television license fee, funding public broadcasting. Evasion involves intense warning letters and occasional detector vans rolling through neighborhoods to catch unlicensed viewing.
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