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Please bow before the all-mighty modem!  Recite the mantra “sharing is caring!” 20 times!  A 20-year-old philosophy student in Sweden has made file sharing an official state religion in his country, and his 3000-member church is growing strongly.  Isak Gerson founded the founded the Missionary Church of Kopimism in 2010, and filed a request with Sweden’s Administrative Services Agency to avoid persecution.  Now, his church is legal and approved, making file sharing a legal religion in Sweden.

Kopimism is Swedish for “copy me,” and the church has a way of praying, an official mantra (“Remix Spirit” is sacred copying), holy symbols (control-c and control-v, the copy and paste commands for Windows), and even a priest class called the Oparnas, who assist others in following the ways of Kopimism.  Gerson is pleased with his church’s legal progress, but since file sharing is still illegal in Sweden, he fears legal reprisals.

“There’s still a legal stigma around copying for many.  A lot of people still worry about going to jail when copying and remixing.  I hope in the name of Kopimi that this will change,” said the file sharing religious leader.

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