Thanks for all your help ladies. Sidereel looks useful - thanks Jess.
I am, unfortunately, 'blessed' with a hubby who refuses point blank to pay ta watch anything and we share a computer at home, which he is on a lot of the time so my chances of watching anything online are limited. I do live in hope though - so all your advice may be useful some day.
Admittedly I am somewhat argumentative and militantly feminist at home and the previous boyfriends I lived with always ended up doing all the housework so they probably moaned about me. But, it's your home too, so you have an equal say in all these things. Maybe just say to him that he's got a choice - you either get Sky, or he gives you some time online to watch what you want to watch - it's up to him which.
Or if you don't want to go down that route, you can buy a basic laptop these days for a few hundred pounds which would let you do most things you could want to do - prices are coming down all the time. Maybe save up and get one or ask for one as a Christmas or birthday gift? Then it's all yours and you can tell anybody else where to go if they touch it. I'd personally put a password on mine to block anybody using it if I lived with anybody. It would be all out war in my house if I had to share my laptop with anybody - I do pretty much everything online.
Generally my approach in life is not to wait for men to be reasonable or share as I grew up with 2 older brothers who always hogged everything and as the little baby sister I never got my fair share of anything. Now, if there's something I really want or need I try and go and get one of my own so I'm independent and can tell men to shove off.
My Mum was the same - hell would freeze over before my Dad would give up the large TV or share it - she ended up buying a TV for almost every room in the house just to prove a point so we all had our own televisions. Dad never stopped moaning about how she was always spending his money.
They had such a brilliant and happy marriage.