Burdock, I'm pretty sure you do need a Licence if you watch anything on the BBC i-player or live stream anything from the website. We cancelled the Licences in our offices and received a letter from the TV Licencing agency sayingthat we must not watch any TV through our PC's.

The BBC live streaming and i-player dont work outside of the UK, as they restrict this free service to licence payers only. Their assumption is that everyone in the UK will have a licence.

I don't watch a lot of TV myself, perhaps an hour a week, although I need one for my kids as they watch a fair amount of childrens TV