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Can TV licensing detect if you have casted someone elses iplayer to your TV?

Basically i dont have a license but iplayer has been viewed on my tv using their login credentials. The person wanted to watch BBC while round my house. Their login credentials are linked with a paid license which is up to date. However i have had some emails from tv licensing saying iplayer has been viewed at my address recently and that i need a license. They logged in via the firestick app

Is this a phishing tacting by the bbc goons as a year ago i told tvl i didnt require a license at my address.
Can they track if iplayer has been casted to my TV or not?
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  1. Roger_Irrelevant's avatar
    Don't be fooled by them (TV Licencing), it's just a brand name.

    Basically BBC (Biased Broadcasting Corporation) pays a company called "Crapita" a load of money to increase their share price.

    Crapita then have some of their monkeys go round and knock on (usually vulnerable) people's doors asking about a TV Licence. At which point you politely tell them to GTFO. They don't have a right to enter your property.

    And you aren't obliged to help them with their (huge quotes) "Investigation".

    (Any letters look official but are just sent from a database, with various combinations of Windows, Red Ink , "Will you be in on (date) , or the best one "We are starting our Investigation " etc.)

    Put it straight in the bin or, draw a big 🐓 and ⚽⚾s on it and write "Return to Sender" on it.

    Plenty of funny videos on YT of their "Enforcement Officers" being told to do one. "ryan rampage tv licencing" are good. (edited)
    Chiptivo's avatar
    The problem is Roger...

    In the example the OP gave, he did and does need a TV license by LAW.
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  3. Pandamansays's avatar
    Tv licences are per property, not person.
    So if your friend has a licence, but watches it at your house, then you need a licence.
  4. dipsylalapo's avatar
    They wouldn't be able to tell if you were casting as this would mean they can see into your internal network.

    However, you weren't casting, you were just straight up using iPlayer using someone else's credentials so yes they were probably able to see that. Moreso if you said you didn't need one.

    (just my understanding, waiting to be shot down)
    sleepingwonder's avatar
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    But if the login they used was a paid licence payer surely that is ok. I wasnt using my email for iplayer (which i dont use, as i dont have a license). But the weird thing is the email from TVL came to my email address stating my address and not to the email of the one whos email was used to login to view it.
  5. The2Time's avatar
    They must keep a record of IP address. I used to watch it when I had a licence and logged in with a totally new account one day and got an email from them.

    So made another new one used with a VPN and not heard anything since. lol
    sleepingwonder's avatar
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    but you cant watch iplayer on tv with a vpn can you?
  6. sleepingwonder's avatar
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    lol they didnt have access to my firestick
  7. sleepingwonder's avatar
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    so TVL cant trace where iplayer is being watched if its casted from a phone?
    The2Time's avatar
    Was it connected to your wifi (the phone casting)? It must have been.
  8. HellRazer's avatar
    Yes
  9. aLV426's avatar
    Anything you do on the internet is traceable, otherwise you would not be able to recieve data. How much effort is put in to tracing the account is down to how much evidence they want to gather.
    Think of it like the real world - if you want a parcel delivered you need to let them know your address...
  10. Ringfinger's avatar
    Everyone you use the Internet the other end has access to your ip address. You can cloak it with a vpn, so they write gave that ip address instead. As i-player is an Internet based service each time you (or they) use their log on credentials they will be compared with those on file for that user. They want to stop account sharing, understand really, so your friend needs to contact them and explain that they were staying with you and that they logged on for their benefit.
    Nothing to get paranoid about.
  11. dcx_badass's avatar
    Are you sure you weren't using your account? Essentially the only way they can do it is if you have iplayer and your tv licensing accounts using the same email address, to do any sort of ip tracing they'd need a court order to your isp for your details.
    The2Time's avatar
    Definitely not true. Had the same situation with a different account using a disposable email and fake credentials until I used a VPN.
  12. sleepingwonder's avatar
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    yes it definitely wasnt using my account
  13. Ferris's avatar
    Which IP address are they using? Whenever I check my IP address I'm apparently 300 miles away from where i am.
    sleepingwonder's avatar
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    they wasnt using a vpn so im assuming it was my wifi ipn
  14. TristanDeCoonha's avatar
    Have a better look at the sending address. I've had emails stating my licence needs renewing etc, when I haven't had one for 20 years, and don't log into anything traceable by capita. It was a rogue email, from someone who was scamming.
    It might just have been coincidence
    sleepingwonder's avatar
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    No it definitely it's a legit tvl email
  15. Moss.b's avatar
    Can TV licensing detect if you have casted someone elses iplayer to your TV?

    Of course.
  16. psychobitchfromhell's avatar
    As others have said, the licence is for the address, not the person using it. By your own admission, someone has accessed content which requires a licence using your equipment while in your property. In order for this to be legal, you need a licence. The fact they have a licence is meaningless, because that only covers their property. Of course they can track such things, just about everything is traceable
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