File Sharing Pirates Denied Religious Protection

10 Jul

Here’s a weird story.

In Sweden a group of software pirates has been trying to get their “church” recognized as an official religion and thus immune to laws against file sharing and software piracy.

The church of Kopimism (copy me, get it?) was recently denied official recognition by Swedish authorities.

Church founder, Isak Gerson said,

“One thing is certain though. We will continue meeting, believing in copying, deepen our faith and church, and fight politically for a world where copying is not only accepted by encouraged. We know that this is not only our dream and cause, but our calling.”

Link here.

One Response to “File Sharing Pirates Denied Religious Protection”

  1. Eldritchfan 14. Jul, 2011 at 2:56 pm #

    Tisk tisk tisk, this is persecution on a grand scale. Don’t those authorities know that all information should be free because all information wants to be free? It’s one of the basic and eternal laws of the universe* and a society that fails to respect it will fail altogether.

    *Said law was pulled directly from my nether regions.