Re:Similar situation in Poland (Score 1)

The Polish Copyright law provides such payment for all electronic devices (HDDs, Pendrives etc.) and media (DVD, CD, DAT, etc.) which may be used for digital copying. But because of such regulation there is an article 23 of the Copyright law, which has very broad definition for pesonal use of digital works (movies, music, _but_ computer programmes are excluded). It means that you may download (and only download, you can not distrubiute it, sell it) and burn such movies, music and any other digitalized work (as I wrote earlier - computer programs are excluded). The payment goes to organizations for collective management of copyrights (lets say very similiar to RIAA and others). Such organization distribute money between authors, producers etc.

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