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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