In Sweden there is now a new religion for file-sharing. Missionary Church of Kopimism is an officially registered religious organization. Swedish piracy group Kopomi was trying since 2010 for that and after several failed attempts it finally succeeded. Kopimi means “Copy Me” and the flag of Kopimism has Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as sacred symbols. For those who don’t use Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, they are key-combinations used for Copy and Paste respectively. Church was founded by Isak Gerson, a Philosophy student in an attempt to legalize copying.
The main believes of this new religion is that all knowledge belongs to all of us, searching for knowledge is sacred, the act of copying is sacred and the circulation of knowledge is sacred. They believe that communication is sacred and that it is a direct sin to monitor and eavesdrop on people. The church has 3000 members and the number keeps growing.
Source: [Kopimism]
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