The Missionary Church of Kopimism (in Swedish Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet), founded by philosophy student Isak Gerson at the age of 19,[1] is a congregation of file sharers who believe that copying information is a sacred virtue. The followers of the religion are called Kopimists from copy me. A Kopimist or Kopimist intellectual is a person who has the philosophical belief that all information should be freely distributed and unrestricted. This philosophy opposes the monopolization of knowledge in all its forms, such as copyright, and encourages piracy of all types of media including music, movies, TV shows, and software.[7] In its spiritual emphasis on copying as an ideal, Kopimism shares values with Chinese aesthetic traditions, in which copying is valued not only as a learning tool (as it is in the West) but as artistically satisfying in its own right, a concept also called duplitecture.[8]
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