[Joe Forster/STA]

As far as I know, it's "grey" in Hungary.

There's a (relatively large!) fee on recordable/rewriteable CD's/DVD's that you can buy in the shops so that you'll have your "fair use" rights and record stuff onto it other than your own home-made videos. I'm not sure if it's an intentional hole in the laws or it's just the usual idiotism of law-makers but the "stuff" above legally also includes digital material downloaded from the Internet.

The result is a joke: in Hungary, it is illegal to share copyrighted material on the Internet, but it is not illegal to download copyrighted material. I've read this on several forums but these don't come from legal departments or (sensible) lawyers (i.e. not from the BSA, Artisjus and other idiots) or, as explanation of the law, from a ministry so take it with some salt.

However, it's going to change soon, I guess: such differences between the laws of the EU and Hungary (now a EU member) cannot be tolerated!