Sweden: File-Sharing Is A Religion
Sweden has recognized file sharing as a religion, granting official church status to the country’s Missionary Church of Kopimism, which boasts some 3,000 members. According to the group’s website, Kopimism sees information as holy and copying and file sharing as a sacred acts akin to prayer. It might be easy to deride this sect, but, unlike most major world religions, at least it has its basis in real things rather than in fairy tales. Of course, the world’s major religion — which should have been recognized years ago by the progressive Swedes — is the Smartphone. I’m sure I’m not the only LemonWader whose life is brimming with people for whom their iPhone is both sacred text and sacred object. Worship doesn’t begin to describe it!
