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>>> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 04/29/03 09:18AM >>>
> > On Maw, 2003-04-29 at 14:26, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > therefore different regulations exist in many other countries.
> > In the UK, for instance, one has to purchase a license to
> > use a receiver (you know, some Sony Walkman). 

> Wrong. You need a license to receive terrestrial TV but that is
> rather different and relates to both cultural and historical tax
> differences in philosophy between the US and UK.

<snip>
> Alan

And the reason is not repression, it is that the BBC is publicly funded. The licence
fee is what pays for the BBC. And produces programming infinitely better that the
total crap we get here in the US.

Nik