Stockholm – There is now a safe-haven
for those of you who love to download your media. The only catch isthat you have to move to Sweden.
The home of the famous file-sharing
site PirateBay has recognized the Church of Kopimism, Swedish for
“Copy me”. It's website makes it clear it supports downloading
and uploading in all forms and sees copyright laws as a violation of
freedom of information.
The spiritual
leader of the group, Isak Gerson, says about Kopimism “"We
believe that information is holy. We do not think that copying is
stealing or can ever be stealing.".
The head of the Swedish recording
industry International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), Ludvig Werner, didn't have anything to say but did
mention 1.5 million people out of the country's population of
nine-million are file-sharers.
"This
means Sweden is one of the most active countries in Europe for
file-sharing. So we still have a problem, even if the legal streaming
of music has helped limit it,” he added.
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