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Idle: File-Sharing Is Not a Religion, Says Swedish Government

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 9, 2011 @09:46AM from the more-of-an-ethos-or-perhaps-a-lifestyle dept.

Dangerous_Minds writes "ZeroPaid is reporting on an attempt in Sweden to recognize filesharing as a religion. The religion's website calls this 'Kopimism' and says that sharing of knowledge is sacred. Apparently, Swedish authorities were not convinced. A recent report shows that the attempt failed to convince the authorities to recognize Kopimism as a religion."

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Re:there is no way to disprove a person's religion by artor3 · 2011-07-09 10:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait

And this is why it failed. Because the courts aren't stupid, and were able to recognize this "religion" for what it is. A mockery of real religions by assholes who just want an excuse to steal things.