Drew Wilson
October 12th, 2009, 03:42 PM
Swedish TV licensing body Radiotjänst has indicated that cell phone users may soon face licence fees as technological advances bring television to the mobile.
Responding to a query from a concerned citizen, the agency said it would not rule out obliging cell phone users to pay a TV licence fee if public service television providers make all their programmes available for mobile phone viewing.
"All equipment displaying a channel's entire output requires the payment of a television licence," Radiotjänst spokeswoman Anna Pettersson told newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Pettersson added that mobile phones did not yet fall into this category, as only a selection of the public television network's programmes were currently available for handset viewing.
More... (http://www.thelocal.se/22614/20091012/)
I guess in Sweden, it's official. If you own a cell phone, you are an "enemy of copyright" (MPAA's words, not mine)
Responding to a query from a concerned citizen, the agency said it would not rule out obliging cell phone users to pay a TV licence fee if public service television providers make all their programmes available for mobile phone viewing.
"All equipment displaying a channel's entire output requires the payment of a television licence," Radiotjänst spokeswoman Anna Pettersson told newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Pettersson added that mobile phones did not yet fall into this category, as only a selection of the public television network's programmes were currently available for handset viewing.
More... (http://www.thelocal.se/22614/20091012/)
I guess in Sweden, it's official. If you own a cell phone, you are an "enemy of copyright" (MPAA's words, not mine)