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NHK may offer separate contracts for streaming broadcast service
Mainichi Japan | June 27, 2017
Households may be able to enter into a separate contract with NHK in the event Japan's public broadcaster begins streaming programming online in 2019, according to the NHK committee considering a new reception fee system.
The new payment system was outlined in an interim policy proposal released by the committee on June 26. Under the plan, the fee for the simultaneous online broadcast would be contracted separately and cover an entire household for the same price as terrestrial broadcasts -- 2,520 yen per two months if paid via bank transfer.
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Yokohammer wrote:This is just to view NHK programming via their app though...
Yokohammer wrote:Personally, I can't think of any NHK programming that my life depends on.
Taro Toporific wrote:Yokohammer wrote:This is just to view NHK programming via their app though...
NHK's wetdream is lusting after fees for any Internet. Their newest "Logic" is that the broadcast law says that ANY equipment capable of receiving NHK signals requires a contract. NHK streams their shows so they can ask for payment for people just having the Internet (NHK wants to ignore the recent court rulings against this twisted logic/claim).
FG Lurker wrote:Back in 2013 there was apparently a [district court decision](http://nullrefer.com/?https://japantoda ... icense-fee) saying, essentially, that NHK could force people into contracts. That seems like something that should've been thrown out by a higher court. Does anyone here know if it was? News story link in English or Japanese?
Taka-Okami wrote:Never understood that payment for NHK. If it's a government run service then surely it would be funded from the tax payer. Wouldn't the simple thing to do is just increase the tax rate if they are so hard up for cash....
Wage Slave wrote:Have a look at Donald Trump's plan for public broadcasting. And enjoy Fox news.
NHK is the closest thing to Fox news that there is on Japanese TV, no? Very conservative, heavily slanted in favor of the right wing LDP.
FG Lurker wrote:the J-gov't will always make sure NHK has cash, NHK is their propaganda arm.
the propagandists
Yokohammer wrote:It seems that every year NHK sends out "warning letters" to a number of homes and organizations that haven't entered into the contract, and have actually followed up with court cases (civil, this is not a criminal issue). They make a big deal about it every time, I assume to show how serious they are and scare a few more people into contracting. There's a standard form letter that they publish to announce this each time. The most recent one that I know of, 14 warnings sent in Miyagi and Fukushima, is linked below (in Japanese).
https://pid.nhk.or.jp/pid99/osk/000000/000038893.pdf
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wangta wrote:Yokohammer wrote:It seems that every year NHK sends out "warning letters" to a number of homes and organizations that haven't entered into the contract, and have actually followed up with court cases (civil, this is not a criminal issue). They make a big deal about it every time, I assume to show how serious they are and scare a few more people into contracting. There's a standard form letter that they publish to announce this each time. The most recent one that I know of, 14 warnings sent in Miyagi and Fukushima, is linked below (in Japanese).
https://pid.nhk.or.jp/pid99/osk/000000/000038893.pdf
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What scumbags NHK are - esp considering what Migayi and Fukushima people have been thru since 2011 in the aftermath of those huge disasters. You'd think the national broadcaster would have some understanding that doing this to these people especially, is and looks pretty fucking low.
wangta wrote:But I'm wondering why he's getting personally addressed letters adding up an unpaid NHK bill and I aint.
Pretty sure he never made a contract.
Supreme Court: TV owners must pay subscription fees to NHK
asahi.com | 2017 Dec. 6
The Supreme Court on Dec. 6 ruled that all TV owners in Japan must pay subscription fees to Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK), a decision that could have major ramifications on daily life.
In the lawsuit heard before all 15 justices, the top court said for the first time that a Broadcast Law provision, which requires individuals who have installed TV reception equipment in their homes to sign subscription contracts with NHK, was constitutional.
The case involved a man who installed a TV at his home in March 2006. In September 2011, public broadcaster NHK asked the man to sign a subscription contract, but the man refused because he felt NHK was biased in its broadcasting...
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...NHK lawyers said a contract was established automatically when it asked that a contract be signed. Based on that reasoning, the public broadcaster said the defendant should pay subscription fees retroactively from the time the TV set was installed.
The defendant argued that the contract only came into effect with the finalization of a court ruling ordering the defendant to accept the contract, and that the obligation to pay subscription fees only arose after the contract came into effect.
The rulings also concluded that the defendant was required to pay subscription fees retroactively from the time the TV set was installed...more shit...
wagyl wrote:I predict a sodai gomi bonanza in electronics!
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