NHK's license fee

I'll, this week, talk about the problem of license fee in NHK. You may  have known such as problems that NHK has and also become social issues. There are some negative points in NHK.

・How is it?
NHK collects TV and radio license fee from viewers and listeners who contract for NHK. It is needed in order to do high quality and impartial broadcasting without influences from particular groups or forces and dependency.  It is based on the law of broadcastimg Article 64. This law makes those who put equipment that receives broadcast contract for NHK. At the same time, they come to be in duty to pay license fee. For example, NHK's business income, 65.98 billion yen is composed of  TV or radio license fee in 96.5% in 2010.

・The Problem
In spite of these systems, there are some people who won't pay license fee. In 2010, it is 74% that the rate of those who contract NHK is. This,I think, results from no punishment for not paying fee. NHK has to urge them by civil suits. Moreover, it results in this to diversification of receivers, PC or one segment broadcasting, and NHK doesn't have just corresponds to this. By the way, in order to reject sense of unfairness, people who don't pay fee can watch TV or are collected for money despite not watching, NHK is considering to introduce scramble way. This way allow those who don't pay not to watch NHK. But there are opposite idea that scramble conflicts with principle of "public broadcast". So it is difficult that NHK adopts scramble way.
If you want to watch  NHK, let's pay the fee.