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Daily Archives: 8 January 2012

Church of Kopimism

Posted on 8 January 2012 by Geoff

Apparently file sharing is now recognized as a religion in Sweden:

Missionary Church of Kopimism

In the midst of a worldwide debate about Internet piracy, Swedish authorities have granted official religious status to the Church of Kopimism, which claims it considers CTRL+C and CTRL+V (shortcuts for copy and paste) to be sacred symbols, and that information is holy and copying is a sacrament.

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