[tzahola]

In Hungary, downloading is legal, uploading is not. This makes torrenting problematic, but they never go after torrent users. Also, there's a special "tax" on storage media (CD-R, DVD-R, USB sticks, HDD, etc.) which is supposedly used to compensate copyright holders via some obscure distribution mechanism (read: a big chunk is probably stolen somewhere down the line).

[franciscop]

Oh yeah, we call that the "canon digital" and it sucks. Goes to few rich artists and it's not even stolen since they just keep it legally.

It was specially ironic when I was a teenager with a music band, we recorded some CDs of our own music. We were paying extra for the CDs in case we were pirating, so this money went to the SGAE and the like for artists while we were of course the artists who had to pay more! Talk about abuse of power.