The government of Sweden has recognized a new church - Church of kopimism. This church believes that all knowledge is sacred and the right to share it is sacred. The church has as its sacred symbols CTRL+C and CTRL+V. These are the commands for copying and pasting. For the Church of Kopimism, information is holy and copying is a sacrament. This comes at a time when the US government is pushing ahead with the SOPA bill ( Stop Online Piracy Act). This new bill which is being met with a lot of opposition is still forging ahead. If it becomes law then websites that help promote torrenting and file-sharing will be banned. ISP's will be asked to make them unavailable. 2012 needed to start with some sort of controversy and here we have it.
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You can visit the church's website but all you get is a static page. They have promised to be up once the storm settles.
Church of kopimism
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