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File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden

Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism – which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols – is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing.

All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities, and the situation in Sweden is no different. While copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates, there is a large group of people who actually consider copying to be a sacred act.

Philosophy student Isak Gerson is such a religious file-sharer, and in an attempt to protect his unique belief system he founded The Missionary Church of Kopimism in 2010. In the hope that they could help prevent persecution for their beliefs, the Church then filed a request to be officially accepted by the authorities.

After two failed attempts, where the Church was asked to formalize its way of praying or meditation, the authorities finally recognized the organization as an official religion. The Church’s founder is ecstatic about this news, and hopes that it will motivate more people to come forward as ‘Kopimists’.

“I think that more people will have the courage to step out as Kopimists. Maybe not in the public, but at least to their close ones,” Isak tells TorrentFreak. “There’s still a legal stigma around copying for many. A lot of people still worry about going to jail when copying and remixing. I hope in the name of Kopimi that this will change.”

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Although the formal status of the Church doesn’t mean that copyright infringement is now permitted, the Church’s founder hopes that their beliefs will be considered in future lawmaking.

During the last half year the Missionary Church of Kopimism tripled its members from 1,000 to 3,000 and it’s expected that the recent news will cause another surge in followers. Official member or not, Gerson encourages everyone with an Internet connection to keep on sharing.

“We confessional Kopimists have not only depended on each other in this struggle, but on everyone who is copying information. To everyone with an internet connection: Keep copying. Maintain hardline Kopimi,” Gerson concludes.

Prospective followers who embrace the same calling are of course welcome to join the movement, free of charge.

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  • IDIOCRACY

    So what if copying stays / becomes a fellony in Sweden? will they claim holocaust? discrimination on believes? I really want to see where this is going, nothing to download because only shit nd rubbish comes from hollywood (hehe), finally some real entertainment.

    • http://twitter.com/SamNord Sammy Nordström

      @IDIOCRACY

      Copying copyrighted material without the copyright owners permission is still illegal in Sweden and the freedom of religion has never been a right to be exempt from the law.

      • Anonymous

        Except for some cases like where Jewish people are exempt from animal cruelty laws, because they believe god wants them to be cruel to animals

        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10690864

        • Anon

          I don’t know why you’re quoting that paper; New Zealand isn’t Sweden. Kosher slaughter without anesthesia is not allowed in Sweden, so no, Jewish people are not exempt from animal cruelty laws either.

        • Yes

          That’s just because they follow ways that were considered humane a while back. You can’t compare a historical tradition to something created today because it was the best they knew thousands of years back.

        • Think Hard, Believe Harder

          Yeah, what Anon said. Because we all know religions are confined to one country, like how Catholicism is restricted to Italy, and thus have no bearing on the rest of the world. /s

          Stop feigning ignorance, Anon. You know exactly why that paper was quoted, as well as what it’s importance is as a prime example. The fact that it’s in another country is completely irrelevant, just like the majority of your comments are.

        • Alex

          Yea, back in the old days we also killed people and offered them to gods. Should we keept that “tradition” too? lol… “can’t compare”, YES WE CAN!

        • Anonymous

          @Anon

          Jewish people may not be exempt from animal cruelty, true.

          They are, however, allowed to mutilate infant boy children as part of religious dogma. As are muslims.

          We can compare this with a non-religious person insisting his/her child should be tattooed or pierced at birth and imagine the outrage this would result in.

        • Notanon

          And some catholic sects practice waterboarding on kids. oh wait, they call it baptism. ‘cept its in rivers and they hold your head underwater. Repeatedly.

          But hey, its tradition too, so crap it.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pac-Ducor/100000183951976 Pac Ducor

        Sure… because we didn’t hear about the catholic priests violating little kids and receiving no criminal actions or any justice being served for their actions… Religion is a scape goat. It works for the bible thumper why not kopies?

        • Trustnoone

          Religion is not why catholic priests violate little kids, Stupid priests do, it has nothing to do with religion in that regard.
          But I agree, at least it might show that people believe in and have faith in sharing, and not with being greedy or stealing.

        • Anon

          Not in Sweden. Since the catholic church here is small, the number of known cases of priests sexually abusing kids can be counted on one hand and it did not become known until decades after the fact. Had these cases been known before the statute of limitations, you can bet your ass the priests would have been charged.

          Just because religion gets a free ride in some countries doesn’t mean that it does everywhere.

        • Haha

          @Trustnoone
          not stupid they worked there way up in a system that hides all the problems they and others have , thats why its even worse then most believe

        • Good job!

          @ Trustnoone: A religion doesn’t cause people to misbehave. It’s human nature and their upbringing that is to blame for their actions. Right?

          A video game doesn’t cause people to misbehave. It’s human nature and their upbringing that is to blame for their actions. Right?

        • Escritorio_arte

          Evangelicals and pentecostals are the ones who do the waterboarding, there is no immersion of the kids’ heads in the catholic church baptism ceremonies. water is sprinkled in their forehead, that’s all.

      • Anonymous

        Except for some cases like where Sikhs don’t have to wear crash helmets.

        • Tesla

          and carry weapons in schools

        • VSingh

          Which hurts no-one except the Mr Singhs themselves. And the number of Sikh motorcyclists can be counted with…one hand…. :)

          /A Mr Singh

      • IDIOCRACY

        @ Sammy Nordstrom (sorry US keyboard on laptop without numpad :)
        I agree, what misses here is my next post, I posterd a typo (big one) after my post that said not copying but Filesharing (in general, like P2P)
        Somehow the post showed only on my own PC until I just refreshed the page (was away for a while) So…. please read my post again and replace copying for Filesharing and then comment again hehe.

      • Anonymous

        I wish the US was like that too

        Religion has free reign here.

        Wait no, christianity has free reign here.

        • http://twitter.com/cockyjeremy Jeremy Lester

          Religion needs to die.

        • Zealots-R-Us

          I believe you’re right. :-p

      • http://www.facebook.com/bohdan.cisar Bohdan Cisar
      • As

        File Sharing is legal in Sweden. Selling copyrighted content that isn’t yours is illegal. Very different. It will likely always remain this way in Sweden. They’ve nothing to worry about. It’s poking fun at both religion and the laws being pushed by US congress.

        • Lars Backman

          Dead wrong! In Sweden, theoretically you can be prosecuted and put to jail for downloading 10-20 movies.

          I don’t know if you can read Swedish but I’ll post my source here anyways. It’s an article from Svenska Dagbladet, one of Swedens leading Newspapers.

          http://www.svd.se/nyheter/inrikes/fangelse-hotar-halv-miljon-fildelare_6740721.svd

        • Anonymous

          and i say it nobody’s business to know which files i choose to share freely with my freinds.

      • Anonymous

        ….except if you’re a muslim, there are numerous examples of that.

      • Anonymous

        Quite true.

        However, it is legal to mutilate boy infants as part of a religious ritual for religious reasons.

        Compared to a person being circumcised at birth without a personal say or opposition for no discernible medical reasons, the case of person A being allowed to hand a copy of information to person B is not a very big issue.

        Given that the proportion of religious adherents who practice infant circumcision in Sweden is outweighed by the number of filesharers and potential kopimists by several orders of magnitude this should be an interesting issue to raise.

        Especially since it has been empirically demonstrated many times that filesharing is victimless whereas each act of circumcision possesses a very definite victim.

        • Anonymous

          circumcision has proven medical benefits

    • Sallah El-Deene

      this is good news, unless they create an “Osama Bin Laden” like figure, a file sharing’ man, who video-type him self while sharing and releases his files and nfo on “Al-Pirate Bay TV”…
      like all of us…

      • Alex

        lol

  • IDIOCRACY

    I meant of coarse filesharing and not copying sorry, typo (big one)

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  • Ale

    I actually feel quite religious in a way about copying too, and it definetely is a large part of what I believe in.

    I consider myself a Kopimist too, although I am not Swedish.

    • http://twitter.com/Davisx3m David Bergström

      You can still be a Kopimist eventho you are not Swedish :)

    • Anonymous

      CTRL+C, CTRL+V Brother.

      • Enter8

        So is CTRL+X blasphemy and, if so, can I atone with CTRL+Z?

        • Anonymous

          Indeed.

          CTRL-X is blasphemy of the rankest order. Similar to Shift-Delete, mv filename.* /dev/null and rm -rf.

          It can be forgiven and sanctioned only by uid0 on the system you are using.

      • Anonymous

        Don’t you mean Command-C Command-V?

        SCHISM!!!!

        • Zappo23

          No…because no one uses Macs for anything practical.

        • Anonymous

          cp filename.mp3 /home/otheruser/bin

          Does CLI use count as ultraorthodox conservatism in kopimism then?

        • Abc

          People don’t use Macs for anything practical? Doesn’t matter; when has the practice of religion ever been practical?

  • Strdan

    I cant’ get in touch with them!

    • http://twitter.com/SamNord Sammy Nordström

      Their website is down, probably due to heavy traffic. Just be a little patient. :)

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  • BigLord

    Don’t know if serious.
    Or if MAXIMUM TROLLING!

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  • D4v3

    No english version on their website? Bah…

  • Anonymous

    I guess CTRL+Z must be their secret holy symbol in that all sins can be forgiven which would mostly be related to the evil and selfish CTRL+X.

    • http://tinyurl.com/ANoiXioNA-personal-info ANoiXioNA

      witty logical conclusion……. 1++

      YOU Alt + L MY MiND

      • Anonymous

        I will CRTL+S that one for later use.

        Meal time soon so I am ALT+F4 out of here.

  • http://kvmswitchdvi.org/ David Switch

    My wits have dimmed a little more after reading this article

  • Terry Belcher

    Finally a Religion I can get belive in!!

    • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

      You should also “seriously” consider the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster which isn’t related in any way to Kopimism, so I guess we could be adherents of both without any serious conflict of religious ethics or morals.

      After all, these FSM guys have some excellent t-shirts n stuff (which I already have of course), and here’s what’s on mine …

      • Doug

        Isak Gerson and The Missionary Church of Kopimism have clearly been touched by his noodley appendages

        Ramen

  • Anthony

    What about patents? A religious revolution against greed would mean that intellectual property should be shared equally by all people, and that would include patents. Suppose a company patented an invention, do you think there should be a religious exemption to patent laws? If a religious doctrine says that greed is a sin, then any company that guards it’s intellectual property with patents is actually a gang of sinners. In the future, people may try to establish a religious community where intellectual property is shared equally. Are you interested in inventions? You may look at my website: anthonyratkov.com

    • Tesla

      10th commandment pertains to greed

      • Thomas Mc

        Greed is the basis for capitalism, the American state religion.

    • Tesla

      I am not against religion, nor am I against patents or copyrights.
      I am not religious, nor will I ever support any patent or copyright.

      Everyone should be entitled to have a belief.

      I believe that copyrights go to far and should be allowed but very limited.
      The same goes for patents.

      In the creation of a copyrighted intellectual item the expectation is that people will somehow learn of it, they will then share.
      In the creation of a patent…bad one here as many patents have been created to stifle production of certain items, this is wrong.

      If we are to advance as an enlightened society we must share information and materials with others.

      If you write a book, write a song, make a movie..etc it will end up in a library , book store, media rental outlet for all to see eventually.
      Once that happens it is public domain.
      Once you release a cd or dvd or book into the media outlets, it will be rented, borrowed, loaned. Expect it, it is fact
      Once you release an invention to the public for sale, it will be copied and usually improved upon, this is always good.
      This also makes improvements cheaper to produce as well as giving the people more to choose from.
      Competition isn’t about beating the competition to the ground because their product has some of the same qualities as your product. This tells you that your product is good, but someone saw it and improved it, deal with the fact that you are not the sole source of creativity on this extremely populated planet.
      One year is more than enough for a patent.
      The media corporations have already decided what is a good time frame for media by releasing to media outlets, but for some reason still think they can control past that time frame. If you want to control that much, then once you release to the media outlets, reduce the price. Only a math flunkee sees the logic of paying $15 to see a movie in a theater, then later charge $50 to view it at home..this is absolutely ludicrous
      The British marketplace is so intense with competition that shop owners have taken the attitude that if I sell 1 item for $100 I might only make a few sales, oops I’m out of business because the next store sells that product for $5, so he will sell thousands and make more money. But because the competition is so intense the profits are quite often less than 10%
      and in many cases even less just in order to make their store popular.
      Newspapers, magazines and books quite often are very close to giveaway items.
      If you are the musician, what makes your life better? Having 10 people listening to your over priced music? Or having a million people listen to it for free or next to free?
      Your future as a media producer will depend on how you answer that question. Most of us already know your answer.

      I have no problem with limited copyright and patent time frame as this allows the creators to get payment which is incentive to create again. But be sure that it will be shared, this is human nature and cannot be stifled.
      Furthermore, holding back the ability to share slows if not prevents advancement to a degree that affects the entire world.
      IBM prevented the advancement of certain technology for 20 years. In that time numerous companies evolved much slower than they should have. To me, that is a jailable offense, it was not done for the good of the world, it was done to line the pockets of a select few, this is criminal.
      He who markets first is entitled to profit, but then in under 1 year, release the information so others can have the chance to improve on your ideas, you are not an exclusive intellect, don’t force people to re-invent the wheel, this is wasteful. There is always someone smarter that could make your idea better.

      And to top it off, to insult, persecute your customers for helping to enlighten others is criminal as well as being more detrimental to your business than the actual copying.
      If you are going to prosecute copiers, prosecute those you can prove profited by it, leave the others alone.
      Otherwise history will destroy you and only remember you as the greedy thugs that you have proven yourself to be.
      You should be happy that people think your material is worth copying. It is free advertising.

      Now I believe I am entitled to a free membership, I have preached, so shall it be.

      • Guest

        A lot of what you said is acceptable, but I have a few complaints.

        Your standard of one year for everything is arbitrary, and doesn’t seem to acnowledge that many inventions won’t make a profit in that time, which will decrease incentive for innovation in the first place. You can’t just say “1 year for everything” and be done with it, you need to acknowledge that some products will simply need more time than that. That isn’t a failing of the businesses; it’s just a reality, and if we try to challenge it to much, then the innovators will do what good capitalists are prone to do when challenged with an impossible situation. They’ll say “we quit”.

        1 year might work for cultural products, stuff that isn’t usually “improved” so much as it is competed with. Patents could easily need more time.

        Oh and one more thing.

        “If we are to advance as an enlightened society we must share information and materials with others.”

        We may not be advanced enough yet. If society ever comes to a point where all cultural work can be voluntary because material needs are met without great labor requirements, then we’ll be the advanced society that can develop and share everything for free. Until then, we need profit, not just as a motivator, but as a mechanism to allow innovators to do their work. Just as innovators can’t assume that they are entitled to profits, we can’t assume that innovators will continue to work without them.

        “Only a math flunkee sees the logic of paying $15 to see a movie in a theater, then later charge $50 to view it at home..this is absolutely ludicrous”

        I think you have those prices backwards. Although, personally, I think movie theaters should just die already. I can testify that if DVDs came out at the same time as theater movies, I would never set foot in a theater again. But then again, that’s just me (and everyone I know).

        • Tesla

          You made my point for me, thanks.

          I feel I was being generous with 1 year.
          If you invent something and patent it, your original intent was profit.
          If after 1 year nothing happened with your product there must not have been much use or demand for it.
          If it was such a small item that you patent and will take years to catch on, maybe you should have considered sharing it for free , if for no other reason than to see if people like it.
          This is what musicians do all the time, but I would not call their creations small or minimize them in any way.
          If you patent a shoe lace and expect to get rich from it, we don’t need your invention.
          My whole purpose in this was and is to point out the difference between helping society versus creating for the sole purpose of becoming rich.
          You do not have to be religious to want to further mankind, this is something you should want to do. As it will benefit you in the long run.

          I have invented many things over the years to make things work better, never once expecting anything other than the satisfaction that I did my best to help someone that is not me.
          I am not alone in this either, many people do this all the time.

          No perhaps we are not an enlightened society. Yet.
          When do you think we should make this effort? Once we have wiped out all those who disagree with us?
          Or maybe after all the people who aren’t millionaires become homeless due to the greed of a few?
          As I mentioned, I am not a religious person but many things said by religious people are valid.
          Do unto others as you would have them do to you.
          Help those in need.
          Help from the goodness of your heart when you can.
          If you are a greedy selfish person only interested in the gold, people will still give you the shirt off their back when you need it, shouldn’t you be the first to do the same?
          People that do not remember history are doomed to repeat it is very true.
          We really don’t need to repeat the Roman society. Or the Caveman era.

          I am one of those people that constantly helps others with no expectation of payment. And usually refuse payment when it is offered.
          It makes me very happy to help when I can.
          Yes I need money just like everyone else, and it disgusts me.
          I have a lot to offer and I want to offer it for free when I can.
          Many things I have done for free have brought huge rewards later.
          I will do this till I am no longer able to do so.
          Will you? Or do you really have expectations of creating something, patenting it, make millions then sit back on your laurels and laugh at the hard working people around you?
          That is no way to live, and no-one wants to be around people like that.

          Do you really need to make a million bucks a day? Wasn’t the first million enough to buy your food and clothing and various toys?
          I look forward to the day when creative people are allowed to do what they do, and we look after their needs.
          Please tell me the difference between a person that creates and is happy to do so, versus the person who creates because he sees power and profit in it?
          Which one would you prefer to listen to or talk to?
          Which one would you die for? Would you die for anyone?
          Would you give your last bite of bread to a starving man or would you take something from him in return?
          The advancement of mankind and the enlightenment of mankind began the day some creature said “I think, therefore I am”, he was not alone.
          Or maybe when we crawled out of a swamp, or fell out of the trees, dunno, I wasn’t there, all I do know is that it started long before I was born and I wish to continue on this path.

          These things will happen unless we all kill each other off due to the greed, which if we continue to put off the start date, will happen sooner than later.

          The more information we share, the closer we will get to real enlightenment.
          The more people that are raised to the highest intellectual level we can manage, the better off we will all be.
          It does not have to cost anything but the effort to help each other.

          So you don’t like communism, socialism, dictatorships, Monarchy…etc..
          Perhaps you do like capitalism.
          I am a capitalist, with communist tendencies, true communism, not the oppressive version that we know exists today that punishes free thinkers, with forced labor, forced living arrangements etc. dictated by power hungry murderers.
          And my capitalism only exists because currently money is what makes the world work.

          Yes, I am dreaming, aren’t you? Aren’t we all?
          We all dream of a better life and we need to work together to achieve this, when you oppress your neighbors and friends by not sharing your creativity you are not contributing to society and not contributing to your dream. If you believe that your ideas are so much better than your fellow man’s ideas and that you alone should make a huge profit so that you can then be a benevolent contributor to society and then help your fellow man, you are nothing more than a petty dictator with delusions of grandeur.

          Have you guessed yet why I go by the name Tesla? not the rock band.
          Wouldn’t it have been nice to have free wireless power? Thanks to the greed of a few it did not happen. Imagine the technological advancements we all lost because of that. Some of which are only becoming a reality now.
          Call a free thinker, a person that saw what the future could be, crazy?…nice. G.E made an even bigger mess than IBM’s 20 year patent did.
          This is typical of those with dollar signs for religious icons.
          As Hank Williams sang, I wish I had a nickel for every tear…personally I wish there were no tears.

        • Tesla

          and my pricing for DVD’s was not wrong, I refer to buying the DVD not renting it
          l8r

        • Guest

          First, where do you live that a DVD costs $50? Must not be the U.S., because I know that most DVDs here cost about $8-12 on Amazon. Add in that movie theatres factor in other huge pricing gouges (3D, food, etc…), and it’s unquestionable that seeing a movie in theaters costs more.

          “If you invent something and patent it, your original intent was profit.
          If after 1 year nothing happened with your product there must not have been much use or demand for it.”

          No, you misunderstand. The problem is not “nothing happening”. The problem is that “not enough can happen in a year to fulfill your costs”. As a hypothetical example, imagine someone invents a new medicine that helps control diabetes symptoms. This could easily cost about $500 million. Now, even if the medicine is popular, it could take more than one year to recuperate those costs, let alone begin to make a profit. That’s the problem. It’s not that people don’t like what you made; it’s that people may very well like it, but the costs of inventing it may make it impossible to recuperate costs, no matter how popular it becomes. When your short 1 year is up, other companies WILL copy that medicine. They won’t even feel a need to improve on it. They’ll just take the formula and sell the medicine as is, close to production cost. They do that with generic medicines now. Then, the company that developed the medicine initially isn’t the one that’s going to be making most of the profit.

          This is not about small items. It’s about large and costly items, where the majority of the cost falls in development. So, let me ask you this; if medicines now need multiple years to make a profit, how will that change if the patent date is suddenly reduced?

          “This is what musicians do all the time, but I would not call their creations small or minimize them in any way.”

          That depends on what you mean by “small”. Culturally, music is not small. In terms of the cost to develop music, yes, the cost is very small. For a few thousand dollars, anyone could buy an instrument and a recording device and make music that sounds as good as anything else anyone else could produce. Compare that to other forms of media (movies and games specifically)

          “I have invented many things over the years to make things work better, never once expecting anything other than the satisfaction that I did my best to help someone that is not me.
          I am not alone in this either, many people do this all the time.”

          That’s you. That’s not everyone; in fact, that’s not most people. You’re not making a policy for yourself, you’re suggesting a policy that will have to apply to most people. Your policy doesn’t account for the fact that most people won’t and don’t work for the same reasons you do.

          You seem to have a very negative opinion of people who work for profit. That’s somewhat understandable given your description of yourself, but understand this; what you’re proposing is an economic policy. It’s not dealing with people like you, it’s dealing with businessmen; and yes, even inventors and music makers are businessmen, and they want to make money. That’s not necessarily a bad thing; they want to improve their lives and support families and do things that they couldn’t if they didn’t have money. For these people, if they can’t make money, it’s going to fall to a simple question; do what I’m passionate for and give up many of the things I want in life, or take a job that can support me and abandon what I would love to do. The answer to that is hard, but it’s not difficult to see what many people will choose.

          And finally, you don’t seem to understand why people want patents. It’s not because they think that no one can ever do better than what they’ve invented; that’s not it. It’s that they want to be given the opportunity to be rewarded for their work. You overestimate the desire for control. Try to look at it through someone else’s eyes. You need to understand other people if you’re going to understand how to convince them to follow your ideas. Right now, you aren’t persuasive because you aren’t making arguments that sound rational to them. You don’t understand them; try looking at it from their perspective.

        • Alex

          Guest:

          In Sweden new CDs/dvds were like 220kr= $28-$30

          At first they were 160kr but later music industry decided to fight piracy with higher prices..

        • Anonymous

          Could be true. Generally speaking, electronic hardware patents should at most have two years of protection – after six months the new model is already vastly altered. After one year the entire architecture is generally abandoned for the next version. A two year old processor or GPU barely even qualifies as a foundation to construct the next generation.

          Medical patents at most five years. Within that period any successful product will have paid for it’s development costs already, and every year of protection can cost thousands of lives lost due to high prices.

          General design mainly requires a strict enforcement of uniqueness required. No more Apple running Samsung off markets because they are also selling a “rectangular communications device with a centered glass screen”.

          Software patents – not allowed at all. They are an insane idea.

        • Guest

          @Scary Devil

          Those seem like reasonable limits for patents (I’ll take your word on the electrical ones, I have no clue there). I would only add one caveat; I’d extend the patent by two years for psychiatric drugs, given that the diffused nature of symptoms they can treat in the same disorder combined with the need to keep patients on their current medicines for risk of relapse means that they often are guaranteed a low market share for a few years until their efficacy rate is proven, their ideal demographic (the patients they’ll work best for) is discovered, and enough new mental patients combined with enough patients coming off of current medication arrive to facilitate the growth of the drug. These factors mean that psychiatric drugs need, on average, two additional years to reach profit. I’d suggest that should be recognized in patent law.

          Otherwise, everything you say seems quite right

    • http://twitter.com/IsakGerson Isak Gerson

      We see all intellectual imprisonment laws as unholy. Copyright is not much worse than patents in that matter.

      Copy and seed,
      Isak Gerson

  • TheHungerSite.com

    I’d rather every man join Christ in Christianity, a communal religion, where none of things you possess are your own, but we’re to have and share “all things common”, redistributing possessions to those that are without, the poor and needy, to bless as we’re blessed & receive more.

    Acts 4:
    32And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

    Acts 2:
    44And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

    45And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

    Philippians 2:
    4Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

    • Gijs de Wolff

      ….that’s called communism

    • Thomas Mc

      Christianity has become the religion of GREED and HATE. I wan’t nothing more to do with it!

    • Doug

      “Chirstianity, great but, when are they going to put it into practice?”
      Jaques Fresco

  • That old man

    Sharing is Teaching.
    Downloading is Learning.
    Why don’t You think about the Childrens?

  • Tesla

    o and lets not forget the 20 year ibm patent
    patent =greed=devolution

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  • Anon

    fucking Swedish lol

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  • Anon

    This is the most ridiculous fucking thing I’ve ever heard. A political party sounds insane, but a RELIGION? Come on…

    • IDIOCRACY

      stop liking yourself and be aware that the Bible (christians) share too as part of their believe, only all the christian fundamentalists in possession of atomic bombs and members or paid by members of the entertainment industry, like you to believe otherwise.

      • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

        Does this assist a little in clarifying the CHRISTian ethic and practice of sharing?

        Or perhaps the 2nd image may appeal more to some MAFIAA-types, business owner AND their paid-for political puppets – as it indicates that so-called “piracy” is not only rife in modern society Worldwide, but an abomination against the virtues of Mammon that these fuckwits hold so dear.
        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammon

    • http://gene-poole.tumblr.com Gene Poole

      That’s right, and look at you and your hate speech, persecuting filesharers for their beliefs, you should be ashamed.

    • Alex

      If you go against my religion, be sure that we will hunt you down!

    • Anonymous

      You mean as compared to a religion which mandates mutilation of every infant or recurring symbolic cannibalism? Just to name practices occurring in the three Abrahamic religions as a standard for comparison.

      The philosophical basis of encouraging people to share and distribute information is far more sound than what most of the religions we today take for granted can boast.

      Then again your view on Jesus would probably be that he should have been incarcerated for stealing jobs from fishermen and bakers with his “loaves and fishes” copying trick.

  • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

    lol we need this world-wide my computer is my preacher.

    • semianonomore

      IT made you say that… IT is infallible- semianon

      • semianonomore

        infalible? er… rong

      • http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

        Jon stallman should be the Internet god.

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  • Abc

    The Swedish Kopimistsamfundet also offer pastoral care.
    “the Act, individual counseling, is done by copying information.[...]The contents of the confession and individual counseling are is excluded from the freedom to provide information. Data obtained during confession or individual counseling may not be disclosed to the scrutiny of supervisory authority. The ops confidentiality is life lasting.”

    So the point is that a priest/op of the church can not be called as a witness if he/she recived the files during confession:
    “Anyone who is a priest in a religious community or the person of such communities who have similar status may not be called as a witness of something he or she has learned during confession or individual counseling.” (36 Ch. § 5 fifth subparagraph of Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure)

    • IDIOCRACY

      Well I guess this is what I mean, go on… everyone will be a priest and all data traffic between members or potential members are confessions, end of story for (enforcing) copyright law in sweden.. hehe give me more!!

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  • pZ

    good propaganda, great manouver, goob job swedes

  • AVGN Junior

    File Sharing is a religion all of a sudden up in Sweden? LOLwut….what’s next, a church for all the technophiles who worship the 360, PS3, Wii, Plasma Screens, and Bubba Rays I mean Blue Rays? Dead world is dead.

    • Alex

      THese examples are not worth beliving in, greed products. Sharing is something much more valued, an action of belive.

      • AVGN Junior

        Oh yeah I forgot to mention Mark Zuckerberg, he is the anti Christ of the Internet <3

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  • http://twitter.com/BeardedDalek Bearded Dalek

    At first I thought it said Kleptomists. I agree with the principles, but I prefer to believe I was created by Davros than a convergence of data streams.

    • Anonymous

      A Dalek with a beard?

      I have seen enough Doctor Who to know where this is going. Expect a purge from your unaltered brethren.

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  • <3 Swedish

    Thou shalt not kill jobs.
    Thou shalt not commit piracy.
    Thou shalt not steal passwords.
    Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s files… unless whored.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_J4B4B5J4CUR7IAVNSV4LCIEFP4 JayS

    Those magnificent Swedes. Gotta love ‘em. Thanks Mom (Lily).

  • http://sorebuttcheeks.blogspot.com/ steroids

    go Sweden a country with a good sense of humor.

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  • Anonymous

    That makes a whole lot of sesne dude, I like the sound of that. Wow.
    privacy-tips.tk

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  • Anonymous

    Gosh I just love those Swedes! Amazing.
    privacy-tips.tk

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  • Haha

    and the holy one came down forma mountian carrying a big iPHONE tablet, on it said “SCREW THIS IM DOWNLOADING EVERYTHING”

    and the people rejoiced

    • Anonymous

      and the holy one came down forma mountian carrying a big iPHONE tablet, on it said “SCREW THIS IM DOWNLOADING EVERYTHING”

      Epic Fail.

      I think we won’t see many kopimist adherents toting iPhones or anything else carrying proprietary, locked-until-a-fare-thee-welle software. :)

      • http://openid.aol.com/sredgreenblue Red

        They could just unlock it…

        • Anonymous

          They certainly could, but jailbreaking the iPhone/iTablets means you have an update problem. Whereas for an Android tablet you wouldn’t need to go through the hassle – plus, the guy who sold you the thing doesn’t consider you an immoral asshat for taking administrative privilege over your own property.

          Honestly, anyone actually taking Kopimism to a religious level will experience a heavy load of cognitive dissonance using IOS in general.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=712296875 Bruce Armstrong

    Rather more appealing than the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, I’ll say that for it.

    • Zappo23

      Sounds like someone has not yet been blessed by His noodly appendages.

  • http://zekeweeks.com @ZekeWeeks

    Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V as holy symbols?
    I’m starting a command key sect – for verily, the holy war of the command key is just, and its purity over the control key apostates is unquestionable.

    • AVGN Junior

      Ctrl+alt+hard drive also holy :P

  • Bob

    Kopimi – When you WANT to be copied!
    Song by: Joel Lundgren
    Song: Kopimi
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reHdCucBsdQ

    The chorus for the curious: “please you who hear me now – kopimi”

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  • Teejones1766

    Yeah. Swedish girls like it when you let your best friend cum in their face so you can kiss it off afterwords.

    Some things just sound better on paper.

  • Farnsworth

    I don’t want to live in this planet anymore.

    • Anonymous

      I hope you mean “on” this planet.

      Otherwise I’d recommend a change of nick to “Morlock”.

    • Thomas Mc

      You are free to leave.

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  • guest

    Where do I join this religion?

  • Derp

    The more you copy the better the afterlife is. All hail CTRL+C and CTRL+V

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  • Alyssa Blindy

    Well. Reminds me of this little song called Sweet Religion.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYpupIFgtSw
    It’s somewhat amusing.

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  • Fake

    All the big religions survived due to piracy. Monks didn’t get approval of the copyright holders or their heirs to make copies of the various holy books. Without piracy, all of them would have been lost.

    For that matter, all the classics survived due to piracy as well. Not only did people copy Euclid’s Elements without permission but Euclid himself compiled it from earlier works.

    The free exchange of information is the very basis of advancing civilization.

    Without it, we would be a stone age monarchy but of course, that’s the goal for some groups.

    • Anonymous

      However, as usual, the church, once established when it found it’s monopoly on interpretating scripture threatened was the first organization to come out in massive condemnation of the printing press.

      The core root of copyright is information control. It’s never worked in practice but any vested interest keeps trying.

      The scary part is that a paradigm was briefly established where people started taking it for granted that person A should be prohibited from copying information and give to person B. And this nonsense is what we’re fighting.

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  • http://www.seotechniques.eu/ Seo Techniques

    Way to go, Sweden!

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  • kopi scholar

    In CTRL we trust lol

  • Religion Sucks Ass

    I hate all fucking religions. I last thing we need is another religion. I may be the biggest file sharer in the world but no way I’m ever gonna support this religion.

    • kopi scholar

      This religion is safe

    • Thomas Mc

      Sounds like a religious belief, to me.

    • AVGN Junior

      I was taught that religion is a organized cult gathering.

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  • Anonymous Group

    We think this is an excellent idea in an attempt to make it harder to be persecuted for file sharing. Copyright infringement companies will no longer be fighting or suing individuals, but will be fighting an organization, an organization which will no doubt now significantly grow in number. Copyright infringement companies will be fighting thousands of people united behind one face, united behind one idea, united behind collective millions of dollars, enough to fight a legal battle until the end of time. We support you.

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  • Tesla

    To Guest
    I currently live in Canada, prices are high here. The further north the more things cost.
    I have lived in a few other countries also. Worked and schooled, American schools, Canadian Schools, British Schools, an African school as well as a school in one of the Scandinavian countries. The differences are mind blowing. The highest standards were in Scandinavia. The lowest standards were American. I know why, do you?
    You get what you pay for does not apply everywhere.
    There are countries where the luxury items we take for granted here are just that, a Luxury item and taxed as such, putting these items out of reach of the average person. I lived in one country where 2 religious groups were slaughtering each other because of a difference of belief, this happens a lot. I do see things quite clearly from the perspective of others. Mostly the oppressed and the stifled.
    As for the medicines example, I have a son that is diabetic. He actually got free and better help by us living in a socialist country than he got living in the capitalist’s corner. In places like this the people work together to solve such problems and they do it for the benefit of the people. These people work very hard too. They share on a massive scale and they all benefit from it. They learned a lot from capitalists for a long time, then they made them leave for various reasons but mostly for the good of their people.
    If the researchers and doctors are given what they need to research and what they need to live they can excel without worry.
    You would be amazed at the difference between a doctor that does his job because he wants to versus a doctor that will only do it because the pay is huge.
    When I need medical aid I prefer to go to an emergency clinic because the doctors are usually there because they want to help people.
    How many people have died or are simply not helped because they are/were poor?
    You left many things in my last post unanswered.
    You need to travel outside your circle of Capitalism before you can tell me my ideas aren’t quite right.
    You are correct in assuming I have a problem with greed, I have tried to make that very clear. It is not necessary.
    When we work together we can accomplish much more than when we work alone striving for the gold, gold that you cannot eat, cannot take with you when you die.
    There are a number of countries that have proven this. When the entire planet is on the same page it will work better than it is right now, they know this. But someone has to take that first step.
    P.E.Trudeau tried to do it to Canada, but it fails because America is not ready to share the knowledge and share the power. And I get that, the world is too full of hate and control freaks for it to work yet. Even though it hurt Canada, it was a bold and very smart move. I actually disliked the man a lot, but he was a world class leader.
    But you have to start sometime.
    We are repeating history and I think it is very clear where we are heading and unfortunately America is right in the front row.

    The post from Anonymous is very agreeable, I’m more than on board. This apparently is what is required to force change upon dinosaurs that cannot see the logic and don’t understand the light.
    Someone send me my ctrl+C necklace now, please? ;-)

    • Guest

      I didn’t respond to everything you said directly because I felt it was all covered by what I did say.

      I was not aware that DVDs cost that much more in Canada. I have to admit, I wasn’t expecting that. I spent about five years in China (and one in Russia), and even there, DVDs cost very little (even the ones that weren’t bootlegged). I admit, you surprised me good sir.

      In my time in China, let me tell you what I saw; when I first arrived I spent some time in a small village in Western China, one that had been largely untouched by the reforms of the 70s and 90s. There, I saw people working to help each other, I saw them making small pieces of art out of what they had available, and I saw them eschew greed in favor of ensuring equal distribution. I also saw them starve and die. When I cam back 4 years later, a business had moved into the area. All of the farmers were employed there. I saw the capitalistic principles ensure food for all, and I saw that the hard workers who supported the village during the farming period gain more than their peers. Everyone had more, and very few were starving. In short, I saw capitalism bring good to an area. I haven’t ever seen that with a communistic attitude.

      The schooling problem is interesting for two reasons. 1. The amount we spend on schooling is actually decreasing as of late. 2. The problem is with the overall direction of education. After all, it’s not that we’re attracting teachers who love money; it’s a low paying job. The problem is threefold. First, the money being spent isn’t actually spent on attracting talent or improving the quality of the material. Secondly, there isn’t segregation of education, so no matter the ability of the students, they’re all put in the same classes. Thirdly, if you want to see good American education, look at the private schools. The private schools actually rank just as high as any other country, as opposed to our public schools. The reason why is simply; they pay to attract talent. The good teachers go there. (There’s also the reason that they’re free from most of the red tape of administrations.)

      Also, regarding your idea of doctors practicing for the love of medicine; working for money does not mean that a doctor does not work for the love of medicine, and it does not mean they aren’t good at their job. Let me give you an example from my own life. About 20 years ago, when I was 19, I came down with shooting pains down my leg caused by spinal stenosis (I did not know that at the time), and over the course of a year, these pains got worse and worse. After a month, I went to visit the local clinic, and recieved advice telling me to try all sorts of different medicines that alleviated the problem. After 6 months, the clinic people gave me an MRI, and found nothing. After 8 months of stasis but non-improvement, and consulting doctors at multiple clinics, my grandmother decided she’d cover my medical costs so I could go to a private practitioner who was UNGODLY EXPENSIVE. After a week, he had a good idea of what the condition was, and after examining my old MRIs, he found evidence of the condition that every clinic doctor had missed. My back was fixed within the week. In my situation, trusting the people who worked at the clinic got me nothing, but trusting the man who worked for profit helped me.

      The point of that story was to remind you that quality and the desire for money don’t have to be separated, and usually aren’t. People start doing these jobs because of a love for the work; money serves as a motivator for them to become even better.

      Also regarding medical researchers, I see big problems in your suggesting. Here’s a few; which researchers do we give money to? What happens if they don’t succeed in making a medicine, despite the 10 years and millions of dollars we put into it? Where does all this money come from? Pharmaceutical companies won’t provide it if they can’t make their money back.
      In addition; what are you proposing we pay researchers? Would it be minimum wage? A living wage? Because the problem I see is that if a prospective researcher learns that he’ll only be paid the same as someone else who didn’t need schooling, then the question he’ll ask is “why should I undergo 8 years of schooling and the long process of application to research jobs if I could just do a simpler job for the same pay?”

      Your idea of just paying them something and then letting passion drive them is unrealistic. You can’t fund

      “There are a number of countries that have proven this.”

      What countries are you referring to?

      It’s unjust that people die because they’re poor; you’re right. To be honest, I’d personally prefer a system where all necessary medical care, along with food and basic housing, could be treated as a state guarantee. And you’re absolutely right that Capitalism is not the best solution for all of these problems. There are some things that Capitalism won’t provide for, and those things need to be covered by some other entity. I won’t argue there.

      Here’s where you lose me; you’re arguing for a change in economic policy based on an attitude that isn’t widespread in the world. In the curent world, here’s a harsh reality. If a company invents something wonderful and amazing and useful, and doesn’t make a profit, they’ll stop inventing wonderful and useful things. If someone sees that a job as a doctor earns them the same as a business job, but the business job takes 10 less years of work to enter, then many of them are going to abandon the business job. If someone wants to make art but can’t profit off of that art, then the other demands in his life, like his family, or his desire to move out of the violence-infested slums will challenge his priorities.

      Your ideas for work will work for a minority of people. For the poor who are limited by their means, and the others who are limited by desire, your proposal will fall short of motivating them, and the production of artistic goods and inventions will decline.

      There will always be people who work only for the passion of it. There will also be very skilled and very intelligent people who won’t work for that. A good economic policy needs to incorporate both. The way I see it, your policy doesn’t account for both; it just works on the hope that all those people will come over to your way of thinking.

      (a quick note; I’m playing the devil’s advocate on this one as far as copyright is concerned. I think copyright should be drastically reduced, but patents need to stick around. This is only because copyright is provably no longer economically necessary. That has not been shown to be true for patents.)

      And throughout this, remember; just because someone works for money does not mean they are bad at what they do, just as someone working for the passion of it does not mean they are good at what they do.

    • NotANON

      Actually Sweden is more capitalistic than the USA. In Sweden there is a much more level playing field in starting and running a business. In the USA certain companies get money from the government or are excluded from laws or just don’t bother following the laws and aren’t held to justice. Having so much power by a few corporations in the USA government makes it firmly anti-capitalistic.

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  • Lol

    Well, I wonder how much money they make with this bullshit.

    • Anonymous

      Probably as much as pastafarianism or the official church of jedi?

      Seriously though, if your remark on “bullshit” is a carte blanche condemnation of religion in general then I’d say you have a point.

      However, I have the following central tenets of other “established” religions to point out in comparison:

      1) Ritual mutilation of infant children (Judaism, Islam)

      2) Ritualized symbolic cannibalism (Christianity)

      3) A life of self-chastisement with the end goal of utter extinction of the self (Hinduism)

      4) Mormons and Magnets. Nuff said.

      Holding the copying and distribution of information as a sacred act makes a lot more sense and has far more profound philosophical value than much of what is accepted dogma within most of the leading world religions in general.

      • Thomas Mc

        I agree. The more information is spread, the more our civilization advances. Unlike those other religions, this one will actually improve mankind, rather than hold it back.

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  • Billy G

    In reply to the post by guest in wich he states.

    “As a hypothetical example, imagine someone invents a new medicine that helps control diabetes symptoms. This could easily cost about $500 million.”

    Thing is tho Guest, that aprox 90% of all medical research is funded by the state, so in reality, either the investment was 50 million, or it was 5 000 000 000 instead if just 500 000 000.

    The medical patents are the worst kind, because it slants the research towards treatment of something rather than a cure. And only in stuff that might produce a profic, and the state STILL funds aprox 90% of the research, why not go all the way, fund the entire research and skip the patents. The state will get back some money if not all the money because ppl will be healther and can work, and from sales taxes from the medical companys.

    And the most important thing for a product is to be FIRST on the market, give them a year to be first, and if they cant hack it after a years lead, then mabye the product wasnt that great..

    Today research have quadrupeled in speed if not more compared to 100ish years ago when patents where starting to be important. so 20 years is ridicilus.. and so is copyright of LIFE+70 years. Meaning it will be copyrighted for between 70-140 years.. wich is not resonable at all..

    imho ofc..

    • Guest

      Try replying to me next time, or barring that, to the thread I initially posted in. It makes it much easier for me to notice.

      “funds aprox 90% of the research, ”
      I think I know the study you are referring to (although not having access to my at-work archives means I can’t find it). If by this, you’re referring to the Henderson 2006 study, then I’m sorry to tell you that the research methods used were fatally flawed, and they vastly overestimated the influence of governmental money. The main flaw (but not by any means the only flaw) they show is that they counted all possible research under the heading of “medical research”. They didn’t create a category for research leading directly to the development or production of drugs.

      In any case, you should provide a citation for that claim, because if you’re using the study I think, then you’re wrong.

      “20 years is ridicilus.. and so is copyright of LIFE+70 years. Meaning it will be copyrighted for between 70-140 years.. wich is not resonable at all.. ”

      I didn’t say those time limits were good. All I said was that one year was unreasonable. Personally, I’d place patents between 3-8 years, and copyright at about half a year, if even having it exist at all.

      “slants the research towards treatment of something rather than a cure.”

      Not quite. Profit margins on treatments tend towards being smaller than profit margins for direct cures, for the reason that while a long-term treatment will usually only capture a small portion of the market, large-scale cures capture a much larger portion. By the time the cure starts to eliminate the prospective market, the drug is usually moving towards being out of patent. In addition, remember that very often, treatments are the only thing that can be successfully developed.

      “The state will get back some money if not all the money because ppl will be healthier and can work, and from sales taxes from the medical company. ”

      This is faulty logic. If all production moved to the state, there isn’t any reason to believe that people would be healthier and that more sales taxes would be garnered. Rates of research development would likely remain at or somewhat below current levels. There isn’t a good reason to suspect this would create good profit for the state (especially when you consider that the typical state is probably one of the worst businessmen in the world).

      “give them a year to be first, and if they cant hack it after a years lead, ”

      This is the same fallacy Tesla showed, and I’m not ecstatic about having to explain it again. the problem is not and has never been about something not being popular.

      Let me go over the example again. I (and by I, I mean about 14 other people along with me) invent a new Diabates treatment. This treatment is easy to produce, and works wonderfully, with minimal side effects. Let me emphasize this next part; EVERYONE LOVES IT! Now, it cost close to 500 million to produce (and remember, a good deal of pharmaceutical research goes on with no government grants, just as some research happens only with grant money). In one year, it makes about 300 million (and that’s unreasonable to expect, that over half of the cost would be made back in the first year). Next year, it goes generic, and the generic companies start selling it at near production cost. Now, we’re still out 200 million, and it’s going to be a real effort to get that back, much less make a profit. All of a sudden, I’m feeling less motivated to research ever again. (of course, I probably wouldn’t, because most researchers are lucky if they ever develop even one drug, much less multiple ones, but that’s going on a tangent).

      That’s not even mentioning the delayed effect; many drugs sell more in their second year than they do the first. Why? It’s easy. Because doctors don’t change their habits and prescribe the new drug until they know other doctors who do, or until the drug has proven some efficacy in the field instead of in the laboratory.

      In short, one year is arbitrary, unreasonable, and sounds directly like a number made up by someone who might understand how the music industry works, but knows little about how the medical one does.

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  • http://www.vrc7.net/ marco

    Their website is down now, would be interesting to know how to join them.

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  • Eric

    This is the stupidest thing I’ve read so far this year.

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  • http://www.kvmswitchdvi.org/ KVM switch USB

    Wow, this is the biggest piece of dribble Ive ever seen, What nonsense.

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  • Edsonma

    I was wondering if the religion don’t like apple computers excluding command-c and command-v. Maybe to be part of it must change default mac users hotkeys to ctrl.

    • http://torrentfreak.com/ Rob8urcakes

      Hey! Micro$oft aint called the Evil Empire for nuttin’ y’know, but give the Church elders time to adopt the Cmnd key into their freedom-oriented religion as Apple aint so innocent in all this either.

      After all, first came the Ctrl then followed by the similarly powerful Cmnd.

      All hail Kopimism – for its doctrines of freedom are the path to truth, sharing and purity of Human spirit.
      Amen …

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ian-Kemmish/100003012223007 Ian Kemmish

    A nice quote from the BBC’s story on this is:

    “Information holds a value, in itself and in what it contains”

    In other words, these people SAY that “information” (whatever that is, surely not Batman movies?) has value but ACT as if it has none.

    Nice to see that they have unerringly homed in on the core value upon which most Western religions are built – hypocrisy!

    • Fredrika

      > “In other words, these people SAY that “information” (whatever that is, surely not Batman movies?) has value but ACT as if it has none.”

      Pirates have never acted as if information, such as intellectual works, has no value? Obviously it has value, that’s why hundreds of millions of people fileshare.

      What no longer holds any value is the services and goods provided from the business model that contributes with manufacturing. distributing and selling copies, because all that pirates can provide themselves, for free.

      You have to remember that you cannot own, sell or buy information or an intellectual work, and people buying copies have never paid for the information or the intellectual work, they paid for the physical goods or service, i.e. the manufacturing, distribution and ownership of the physical copies. That is no longer needed. It holds no or very little value.

      There’s nothing hypocritical with this story, only ignorance on your behalf.

      • Aldar

        you dont seem to understand .The marketing value that is being overlooked by the anti-pirates.For example “General Hospital” is on TV for free but generates millions of $$ because of advertising which pays for all the production costs plus extravagant living beyond most of our means.This method should be used for all these copy rite apps.
        On a personal note,I am a carpenter,my work has no copy rite and maybe it should.maybe I should get a nickel everytime you walk through your house door or sit down on a wooden chair.I pay alot of $$ to see the rolling stones,paul Mcartney and so on but I cant download music they already got paid for when I went to see the live show.

        • Fredrika

          > “you dont seem to understand..”

          Are you sure that answer was directed at me? Because i seriously don’t see how it has any relevance to the factual statements that i provided in my previous comment, which in turn was a correctly placed reply to the comment from Ian Kemmish and the misconceptions he portrayed in it.

    • Billy G

      uuuh, wah? how do you figure ?

      In other words, these people SAY that “information” (whatever that is, surely not Batman movies?) has value but ACT as if it has none.

  • Ben_Dover

    Screw u u flamming luberal jack@$$…FU!!!

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  • semianonomore

    go forth and delete no more my sons…

    • generic organic device

      and daughters… and our energies of other quanta

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  • Luca Bogdan

    wow

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  • Panthorik

    So wait a second, does that mean Al Gore is god since he created the internet?? lol

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  • Magnus

    It is really the right country where filesharing was almost a religion (and now is).
    About 15-20% of the poplulation filehares regularly, the number on the on and off sharers must be really high.
    Also in the way of providing “services”, “programs” and trackers:
    Niklas Zennström (he started Skype) was a Swede involved in Kazaa (one of the earlier successful fileharing services), Ludvig Strigeus (“Ludde”) created Utorrent and has also created things like ScummVM and OpenTTD.

    And, of course we have the piratebay.
    And the pirate party, which made it all the way to EU.

    So, since we are a country of non-believers otherwise (about 10-15% believes in a god, as opposed to 85% in the USA), it is totally reasonable to have a religion based on filesharing. How much harm to a person has a filesharer done compared to all the violence and wars that other religions are linked to?

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  • The Merry Reaper

    The real problem with this religion is the same as any other. It makes some sense at the time it is created, but becomes ridiculously outdated very soon… Touch screens, voice- and direct brain commands are the way of the future, meanwhile spaghetti is eternal.

    Even on this very page we see the first signs of a religious war between the controllers and the commanders, most likely in an era when either key is a mere reference to a long lost tangible concept.

    The human urge to share information is what drove us to develop language, the very foundation of all our achievements, including the ones that are patented or copyrighted. Every invention is built or depends on previous ones or combines them in a new way. Copyright and and patents, like religion only slow down natural progression of ideas, concepts and implications thereof.

    The war on sharing is at least as doomed as the war on drugs anyway, unless we are prepared to arrest kids for sharing their sweets, drawings or for spinning around in order to get dizzy.

    We should not try to circumvent unjust laws by means of starting a mock religion (they all are imo) we should stop voting for people who want to make them even more unjust and start voting for people who don’t. In a democracy it is as easy as that. If a politician can get a shed-load of money for supporting draconian laws, but knows that doing so will be his political death he won’t. That’s the power of democracy and it’s high time we start to realise that. Big business think they have the money and the power and politicians think they have the power. They have neither because it’s our money they have and our power they use and we CAN stop giving it to them if we want to. The world has not seen its last revolution

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1006206981 Rene Degen

    I would now join your church and support you! although I’m not from Sweden but from Switzerland

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  • Nomail

    I just joined the Church :)
    Although I don’t know a word in Swedish. I hope they translate their website into English anytime soon. Cheers.

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  • Name Withheld

    The big problem with this whole religion thing is that it’s being treated as a joke.

    • Anonymous

      the word “religion” IS a joke..Faith on the other hand..

  • Anonymous

    Sharing is Caring.

    Enter.

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  • http://www.webstatsart.com/ Webstats Art

    Sweden is only famous for 3 things right now. 1. ABBA (awesome band) 2. Bjorn Borg (awesome tennis player) and 3. PIRATE BAY.

    • Felipe Alvarez

      4. Assange

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  • Anonymous

    genuis just genuis i approve of this.

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