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Scandinavia is wonderful - they have a registered religion called Copyism (Swedish spelling is kopimism) - in which the central act of worship is file sharing. I believe the religion was started as something of a joke. Somebody applied for registration and because it met all the criteria for registration it was accepted.

Wikipedia says: The Missionary Church of Kopimism (in Swedish Missionerande Kopimistsamfundet), is a congregation of file sharers who believe that copying information is a sacred virtue and was founded by a 19-year-old philosophy student Isak Gerson and Gustav Nipe in Uppsala, Sweden in the autumn of 2010. The Church, based in Sweden, has been officially recognised by the Legal, Financial and Administrative Services Agency as a religious community in January 2012, after three application attempts.

Gerson has denied any connection between the Church and filesharing site The Pirate Bay, but both groups are associated with the Swedish art and hacking collective Piratbyrån.
 

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Interesting. Obviously a joke. Now I'm curious about the registration requirements that must be met in Scandinavia for something to be considered a religion there.
 
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