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Isak Gerson.
Nineteen and reading philosophy at Uppsala when he founded the congregation in autumn 2010, in the middle of Sweden's file-sharing prosecutions. He held the title of spiritual leader and was consistently careful in interviews not to claim the registration meant more than it did.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Copying is a sacrament.
Not a metaphor for one. Kopimism holds that duplicating information is a holy act in itself, that the copy has the same standing as the original, and that a work withheld from copying is diminished rather than protected.
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What the laws of physics permit should not be restrained by the laws of states.
The church's founding principle and its political argument in one sentence. Kopimists are precise that this is a claim about what ought to be, not a defence in law — no Kopimist has successfully pleaded the faith against a copyright charge.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
Information is the substance of the world and copying is how it lives. Every copy is an act of creation; every restriction on copying is a subtraction from what exists.
After death
None taught.