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Swedish File-Sharers File For Religious Status

Posted by samzenpus on from the guided-to-share dept.

nloop writes "A group of file-sharers in Sweden have requested that their religion, Kopimism, be officially recognized in Sweden. Although this status has been denied once in the past the struggle for religious freedom from persecution continues. Aside from deeming CTRL+C CTRL+V as sacred symbols other beliefs include the flow of information being ethically right and closed source software being 'akin to slavery.'"

3 of 420 comments (clear)

  1. Story of Beginning in this religion by CrystalFalcon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Don't miss out on Member of European Parliament Christian Engström's suggestion for a religious version of the Beginning for this religion.

    Short version:

    1. There was chaos and soup.
    2. Somebody in the soup learned to copy. Thus was Life.
    3. Having learned to copy, they built magnificent things.
    4. We honor the beginning by copying and building magnificent things.

    Not bad, I think.

  2. Re:Why be such morons? by DigiShaman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why do you think Scientology was created? It was to provide tax-exempt status to a legalized pyramid scheme. The closer you get to reaching Clear, the more about this scheme is revealed to you. Of course, not until after you dump tons of money into it. So by the time you've reached Clear, you've now accepted that Scientology is complete and total bullshit yet but must keep your underlings in the dark just long enough to cash-out.

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    Life is not for the lazy.
  3. Religion is not a 'get out of jail free' card by Michael+Woodhams · · Score: 4, Informative

    Something being part of your religion does not necessarily make it not illegal. In the USA, the standard used would be the Lemon test. If file sharing was criminal-illegal (rather than civil law illegal) and the 'church' challenged this on first amendment grounds, the state would need to show:
    1 the law had a secular legislative purpose
    2 the law's primary effect is not to advance or inhibit religion
    3 the must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion
    An anti file sharing law would have no trouble passing these tests.

    Of course, this is all in Sweden, so different laws/precedent will apply.

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    Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.