Rejected petition The BBC should be encrypted instead of the license fee

people that do not watch the BBC should be forced to pay for the programming of the BBC as they are not using that service. Sky are able to encrypt their channels and bill people that watch them so in that case so can the BBC

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Date submitted 2 October 2017
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