TV Licence? PC Licence?

Jeremy Hunt has hinted that collection of the TV Licence Fee may have to change as more people are watching TV on thier computers.

So are we dead in the water? Probably not. That the use of a PC to watch video is exempt from a licence fee is actually in the primary legislation. If the Culture Secretary wants to make a change then he has to go back to parliament.

The most plausible change would be requiring a licence to use iPlayer. There is already DRM 'encryption' on iPlayer, why not hand out user accounts with the TV Licence? The BBC would prefer to live in denial however and are unlikely to want this. We think that the most likely outcome at present is no change. We shall be watching what happens next.