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Digital religion: Russian Pirate Church eyes registration
Published time: August 05, 2013 02:00
Russian adepts of free web data flow plan to register their own religious organization to battle copyright laws. Adherents of the Kopimi, or Copy Me, movement believe the process of exchanging data is sacred and intend to bring the argument to court.
Activists in five Russian cities: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan and Khabarovsk will officially apply documents to register a church of their own Monday – so that they could launch an assault on copyright laws that “insult religious feelings of the believers”, the chairman of the Russian Pirate Party Pavel Rassudov told Izvestia.
“The church registration process will take years but adepts of kopimism will have the right to sue the anti-pirate laws,” Rassudov insisted.
The Kopimi community was established by the founders of the Pirate Bay file sharing service and has been officially registered as religion in Sweden.
http://rt.com/news/kopimism-russia-pirate-church-987/
http://www.churchofkopimism.org.uk/
http://pirate-party.ru/
