Russian Church of Kopimizma Rallies For Battle Against New Piracy Laws

colinneagle writes "File-sharing advocates are seeking to spread the Missionary Church of Kopimism, a religion steeped in file sharing as a philosophical concept, to Russia in an effort to overturn the country's controversial new anti-piracy law. Activists in several parts of Russia — Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Khabarovsk — are applying to form an officially recognized church of Kopimism, which they hope will enable them to challenge the anti-piracy law. ... Activists are reportedly planning to file lawsuits challenging the law as soon as the applications are filed. However, Russian lawyers and lawmakers told a Russian news site that the country's separation of church and state will make it difficult to make any progress through this approach. Kopimism was legally recognized by Sweden's government, where the religion was first founded, in January 2012."

Comments

Religion?

[FatLittleMonkey]

Can we stop deliberately confusing "stuff I believe" with "religion"? Unless religion means more than just any arbitrary belief, the word is meaningless to describe actual religions. (I say this as an atheist. Religious people do this too. "Atheism is just a religion", "evolution is a religion", "environmentalism is a religion". No it isn't.)

Re:Religion?

[lxs]

Religion means special protections under law and in many countries tax breaks. So let's first get rid of those.

BS vs BS

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

are applying to form an officially recognized church of Kopimism, which they hope will enable them to challenge the anti-piracy law.

I love it when clever individuals hijack stupid laws to fight other stupid laws.

use proper inflexion

[KiloByte]

What's that "church of Kopimizma"? You use either English or Russian grammar. Please write either " kopimizma" or " of kopimism".