• fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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    14 days ago

    Not many people know, but your standard British TV Licence actually functions as a "Televisual Letter of Marque".

    The Letter of Marque permits you to legally seize televisual material from any other source in the name of the crown, as a state-sponsored privateer, rather than a common pirate.

    At least, that was what I had been led to believe, officer. You'll have to take it up with TV Licencing. Nothing to do with me, officer.

    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk
      hexagon
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      14 days ago

      I wasn't watching television, I was observing remote images!
      God, bloody sheeple don't know their own natural law it seems.