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318 points dcminter | 1 comments | 21 Oct 24 18:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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cooper_ganglia ◴[21 Oct 24 19:34 UTC] No.41907633[source]▶
A "TV License" is one of those things I alway assumed people were making up to satirize the claims of over-regulation & bureaucracy in the UK.

Finding out it was real was a mixture of hilarious and sobering.

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Zak ◴[21 Oct 24 19:38 UTC] No.41907684[source]▶
Many European countries are worse about it than the UK; even people who do not own a television are required by law to pay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence

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ho_schi ◴[21 Oct 24 19:54 UTC] No.41907867[source]▶
This fee is hot topic in Germany. Our French friends also enjoy ARTE[1] but seem not to suffer anymore from this ridiculous fee. Actually I’m surprised that the Swiss fee is even higher, despite everything in the Swiss is expensive.

[1] Big parts of our public television suck. But ARTE is awesome!

    * Borgen
    * Occupied
    * Mit offenen Karten
    * Karambolage
    * …
PS: ARTE is watchable outside of France and Germany in a lot of countries in Europe. Poland, Spain, Austria, Netherlands, Czech and so on.
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metabagel ◴[21 Oct 24 20:21 UTC] No.41908147[source]▶
Occupied is outstanding, and available in the U.S. on Netflix.
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1. ho_schi ◴[22 Oct 24 08:04 UTC] No.41912207[source]▶
Yes. Netflix seems to “import” public television series from Europe into their paid subscription.