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.
The founding principle — that what the natural laws of technology make possible should not be restrained by worldly law — is the church's whole political argument compressed into a sentence, and it is printed on its own front page in Swedish. Kopimists are careful about what it is not. It is not a defence in court: no Kopimist has successfully pleaded the faith against a copyright charge, and the Kammarkollegiet registration granted a legal form rather than an exemption. The church said so itself at the time, which is more restraint than most new religious bodies show on being recognised. The claim is normative, about what the law ought to permit, and it was made at the moment Sweden was prosecuting the operators of the Pirate Bay, in a city with one of the densest concentrations of file-sharing activism in Europe.
Det som teknikens naturlagar möjliggör ska vi icke (försöka) begränsa med världsliga lagar.
Det missionerande kopimistsamfundet, kopimistsamfundet.seWhat the natural laws of technology make possible, we shall not (try to) restrain with worldly laws. The church's founding principle, on its own front page.
The same ground, other faiths
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