Missionary Church of Kopimism

Det Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet (English: Missionary Church of Kopimism, dt: The Missionary Church of Kopimismus ) is a community of file sharers, who assume that copying information is a sacred virtue. The supporters of the Community Kopimisten (English: Kopimists ) called their doctrine Kopimismus. The name is composed of the words " Kopimi " and -ism. Ism comes from Latin and means of teaching; Kopimi derives, however, from the phonetically similar prompt, type copy me to German: copy from me. Thus, " Kopimismus " thus translated doctrine of the "copy me".

History

The history of Kopimismus begins in Sweden in 2003 with the establishment of the so-called Piratbyrån. This was a so-called "anti- copyright" organization. Members of this pirate bureaus founded the BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay in the same year. In 2005, then published the anthology Kopimi. After 31 May 2006, the server of the Piratbyrån were confiscated, its members joined it in 2010, " to think ". " The Pirate Bay " has since been hosted by the Piratpartiet.

In their youth organization Ung Pirat, the then 19 -year-old philosophy student Isak Gerson active. He is also treasurer of the Student Christian Movement of Sweden, where it tries to connect the two ideologies. The foundation of the church took place in 2010. A request on the same year a resolution to officially recognize the Church as such, in July 2011 was rejected. After two more failed requests Det Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet end of December 2011 was recognized by the Kammarkollegiet as a religion. From this point Kopimismus in Sweden is recognized as a religion and therefore is no longer referred to as a cult. Between mid- 2010 and early 2011, the number of members of 1000 tripled to 3,000.

Teaching

To be approved as a religion, the church had a form of prayer or meditation specify in their rituals, which manifests itself in the Church through the worship of the value of information in the form of copying. The Church calls this kopyacting. According to the Church of communication is sacred. Since the Internet is one of the best places to as well as for file sharing, it is also considered holy. Copying and dissemination of information is ethically right, so-called Copymixing a holy, sacred form of copying, since it magnify the existing wealth of information and improve. Also see " Kopimisten " it as a sign of respect to copy publicized information of another person and to " remix" as it was a strong expression of acceptance and kopimistischem faith.

In addition, the " kopimi " logo is considered to be sacred.

Symbols

The symbol of the Missionary Church of Kopimismus is a pyramid with a three-dimensional K or C in the top, depending on the language. It was designed as the opposite of copyright from Piratbyrån, ie it indicates when a work is to be copied.

In addition, the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl C and Ctrl V are sacred symbols of the Church, as they are commonly used for copying and pasting. That is why they are mostly done in the form of a Yin and Yang instead of the two points.

Another possible religious symbol is a red " V " on a white background with a small blue triangle in the opening above. His starting point on the ground is information that gains value by distribution. Thus, the point is the tip of a pyramid. The fact that this is upside down, symbolizing that the Kopimismus to reverse the traditional, hierarchical principle. An individual should not be at the top, but form the base. At the upper edge of a triangle is cut exactly in the middle, whereby the red V is produced. This represents the key combination Ctrl V, which is used to insert information. The trimmed triangle is colored blue, and vice versa reinstated into the gap, which symbolizes that potential disadvantages are outweighed. It also provides an arrow is upward, which shows that the dissemination of information is not yet complete.

In addition, the symbol of The Pirate Bay and the integrated therein campaign logo Home Taping Is Killing Music and its variations and parodies used.

Copyright

In an interview, the church founder Gerson stated that he considered the current copyright for " very problematic ". In his view, they must at least be rewritten, but he proposes to abolish ago, most copyright laws. After Isak Gerson any file sharing should be allowed. However, the formal status of the Church does not change the criminal prosecution of members of copyright infringement, with Gerson, however, hopes that the faith of the Kopimisten is taken into account in future legislation. Peter Sunde, co-founder of The Pirate Bay, mentioned in an article on the recognition of Kopimismus that in Sweden the law on religious freedom "absolute" is: " [ ... ] no other is higher." Also the founder of the Piratpartiet Rickard Falkvinge describes the protection of religion in Sweden similar to, and shall in particular on the privileged status of discussions with priests. These may not be overheard and are not allowed in court as evidence. The chairman of the Swedish Piratpartiet, Anna Troberg, described the collision of copyright and freedom of religion as the " certainly entertaining ." In addition, she stated that she saw the church as " interesting phenomenon ", but will not join because she herself was an agnostic.

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