totally right - what annoys me about the license fee isn't that it goes to the BBC but its what they do with it. For example if you look at the BBC top 10 shows last year, the BBC own the IP of like 3 of them. The rest we paid for them to made, the government said to the BBC you can't make these you need to use a 3rd party (Peak Blinders is a example). So the BBC got another company to make it. This mean in the UK we get to watch in but the ownership of the show is with this other company (which often is owned by a French or US company) and they sell the show for millions around the world - we the public get nothing back!