After a couple of failed attempts, a group of pirates in Sweden has created an official religion from the Church of Kopimism. Crave contributor Christopher MacManus regularly spends his time exploring ...

A religion that just recently become officially recognized in Sweden holds CTRL+C and CTLR+V as sacred symbols. According to TorrentFreak, the Church of Kopimism considers copying and file sharing a ...

The Missionary Church of Kopimism has one central belief: that it's okay to copy information, in any form. And now the church of file-sharing has finally succeeded in its bid to be recognized as a ...

You might consider your digitally-inclined ways a lifestyle, but a collective of data pirates in Sweden have taken the free flow of information on the web to religious new heights. Members of the ...

In Sweden, as in all Scandinavian countries, religious liberty has developed only gradually since Lutheranism became supreme in the 16th Century; until a law was passed in 1860 recognizing dissident ...

STOCKHOLM — People almost everywhere are file sharing these days, using computers to download music, films, books or other materials, often ignoring copyrights. In Sweden, however, it is a religion.

The pro-piracy "Church of Kopimism" holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as its sacred symbols. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau Chief COLOGNE, Germany – Sweden has recognized file sharing as a religion, granting ...

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