Is the BBC right to charge people who only use iPlayer a full fat licence fee?

Today, the BBC is ending the so-called ‘iPlayer loophole’, which an estimated 500,000 viewers have enjoyed to-date. From now on, people will be expected to pay for a TV licence, even if they only consume content via iPlayer.
All over the internet, stories of detection vans that would give James Bond a run for his money are causing people to break into a heated frenzy of Orwellian narratives about the Beeb invading our privacy. Not to mention the unpleasantly termed WiFi ‘packet