Kopimism, Sweden's Pirate Religion, Begins to Plunder America

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"According to its manifesto, private, closed-source software code and anti-piracy software are 'comparable to slavery.'"
It is ironic that steps to protect one's work product are compared to slavery. Abraham Lincoln said something to the affect that when one person seizes the work product of another for his personal use, he makes a slave of that other person. It appears this group is engaging some Newspeak in that they are advocating stealing the work product of authors, songwriters, or whatever the creative they wish to victimize and comparing the effort to prevent such theft to enslavement.

ETQuail of MI 8:37PM April 20, 2012

Yes yes yes. Isn't it always interesting that it's never the people CREATING the property that want to copy copy copy. It's the low life thieving scumbags that refuse to pay for the work of others.
Tell ya what, for those people that love to copy, let's raise the price of food by say...800%.
Go copy a tomato, numbnuts.

Noel of GA 8:28PM April 20, 2012

How about everyone in the world come to "your" houses and eats and takes everything?

One Eyed Eddie of NJ 8:28PM April 20, 2012

But working for free and creating equal slaves is their agenda and their right.
After all, they have previous failed socialists like Stalin to hold up as models of failure.
Somewhere in all this delusion, we'll shake the world and let all these nutcases fall off.

John Locke the 2nd of PA 8:01PM April 20, 2012

Hasn't BO 'The Musklim Turd' already great them permission?

TMA1 of NY 7:55PM April 20, 2012

"Man is made of data, and unto data bits and bytes he must return...."

Tim Driscoll of WV 7:53PM April 20, 2012

This is not a religion. It's a pirate's club masquerading as a religion. Perhaps this is to cover itself with the freedoms accorded to bona fide religions under the "free exercise" clause of the constitution.

James Wilson of VA 7:53PM April 20, 2012

Whiel not explicitly stated, this includes all design descriptions of computer hardware, airplane, automobile, and building blueprints, patents, etc.

Frank Lee of CA 7:43PM April 20, 2012

I have a right to not create content and keep it away from these hyenas.

Cliff of CO 7:35PM April 20, 2012

While I think that free access to knowledge is admirable, it is not right. Everyone has the right to be paid a fair wage/salary/honorarium/remuneration for their work especially work of the mind.
I am a voracious learner and would like to see education brought down to cheaper prices to make it more accessible to all. However, there must still be a price because people to do not value things in which they themselves have no equity. Therefore, I cannot condone this group of people asking for legal protection of theft under the guise of religion

a c moore of TX 6:28PM April 20, 2012