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# LET THERE BE ROMS: A new religion finds ecstasy in pirating copyrighted material.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/let-there-be-roms-a-new-religion-finds-ecstasy-in/
- Published: 2012-01-10T17:03:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:27:55.000Z
- Description: This is a weird one. A group of Swedish copyright pirates have founded Kopimism, a strange new religion that holds copying data as their highest sacrament. Like me, you’re probably thinking, “Is this real?” Yes, it seems to be. The Swedish government recognizes Kopimism as a religion, and the church
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This is a weird one. A group of Swedish copyright pirates have founded Kopimism, a strange new religion that holds copying data as their highest sacrament. Like me, you’re probably thinking, “Is this real?” Yes, it seems to be. The Swedish government recognizes Kopimism as a religion, and the church is 3000 members strong. According to [an interview with the high priest of copy infringement](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21334-kopimism-the-worlds-newest-religion-explained.html?ref=killscreen.com), they “were founded about 15 months ago and… believe that information is holy and that the act of copying is holy.” The interview continues:

> **What are the Kopimist prayers and meditations?**  
>  
> *We have a part of our religious practices where we worship the value of information by copying it.*  
>  
> **You call this “kopyacting”. Do you actually meet up in a building, like a church, to undertake these rituals?**   
>  
> *We do meet up, but it doesn’t have to be a physical room. It could be a server or a web page too.*  
>  
> **I understand that certain symbols have special significance in Kopimism.**   
>  
> *Yes. There is the “kopimi” logo, which is a K written inside a pyramid a symbol used online to show you want to be copied. But there are also symbols that represent and encourage copying, for example, “CTRL+V” and “CTRL+C”.*  
>  
> **Why is information, and sharing it, so important to you?**  
>  
> *Information is the building block of everything around me and everything I believe in. Copying it is a way of multiplying the value of information.*  
>  
> **What’s your stance on illegal file-sharing?**  
>  
> *I think that the copyright laws are very problematic, and at least need to be rewritten, but I would suggest getting rid of most of them.*  
>  
> **So all file-sharing should be legal?**   
>  
> *Absolutely.*

My only remaining question is: what do I have to do to convert from Jediism?

\[[New Scientist](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21334-kopimism-the-worlds-newest-religion-explained.html?ref=killscreen.com), [img](http://www.illumemagazine.com/?ref=killscreen.com)\]

*\-Jason Johnson*