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'Ctrl+C me, my brothers' - Piracy preachers paste themselves in US

Monday, April 23, 2012

'Ctrl+C me, my brothers' - Piracy preachers paste themselves in US


A Sweden-born “online piracy religion” is seeking official recognition in the United States. “Kopimists” preach that any act of copying information is sacred and cannot be limited by any human law.

The movement, established in late 2010 by then-19-year-old philosophy student Isak Gerson, holds Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V – the keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste commands – as its sacred symbols.

The name Kopimism is world play on “copy me”, inspired by a Biblical quote from 1 Corinthians 11:1, “Copy me, my brothers, just as I copy Christ himself.”.... MORE

SourceThe Daily Tribune

URL: http://rt.com/news/online-piracy-religion-us-698/

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