{"id":30227,"date":"2012-01-10T16:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_ctrlcand_ctrlv_we_trust_file_sharing_made_an_official_swedish_religion_o\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:01:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T16:01:37","slug":"in_ctrlcand_ctrlv_we_trust_file_sharing_made_an_official_swedish_religion_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30227","title":{"rendered":"In Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V we trust: File sharing made an official Swedish religion on Third Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism \u201d\u201c which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols \u201d\u201c is now approved by the authorities as an official religion. The Church hopes that its official status will remove the legal stigma that surrounds file-sharing.<\/p>\n<p>All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities, and the situation in Sweden is no different. While copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates, there is a large group of people who actually consider copying to be a sacred act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/file-sharing-recognized-as-official-religion-in-sweden-120104\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2010 a group of self-confessed pirates have tried to get their beliefs recognized as an official religion in Sweden. After their request was denied several times, the Church of Kopimism \u201d\u201c which holds CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30227\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,200,108,95,452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}