Kopimi is not primarily about file sharing. It is about copying in the basic sense — the kind that happens on dance floors, everywhere in nature, in all communication.
There are connections to the sociologist Gabriel Tarde and his ideas about imitative rays and imitation being one of the "fundamental interactions" of any kind of society, even nonhuman societies.
It's about rejoicing in multiplicity, abundance, overflow. Here an important influence is George Bataille, especially within the sub-sect of kopimists who emphasize the power of copying in itself over any particular piece of static information. The way a loudspeaker copies music into the minds of hundreds of dancers imitating each other — and the way all of this vanishes as it happens: quite useless, but fun.
There's a tendency for reporting to focus on Sweden as some kind of pirate paradise with The Pirate Bay being the major actor, but that's a really shallow and boring focus.
I think Kopimism as a state-recognized belief community is primarily a fun hack, but also a starting point of a new and interesting fractal development. Who knows what will happen? Media and internauts will copy this meme endlessly and inspire lots of lulz and weird stuff.
To think of it as satire is to think that the categories of the world are already pre-formed and that acts and statements are just commentaries or judgments. Worse still to think it's a way to "get out of jail free" — this completely misunderstands the situation, nobody believes this.
Kopimi tells us to explore the virtual possibilities of the world. What does it mean to invent a religion of copying? Let's try it and see!
There are connections to the sociologist Gabriel Tarde and his ideas about imitative rays and imitation being one of the "fundamental interactions" of any kind of society, even nonhuman societies.
It's about rejoicing in multiplicity, abundance, overflow. Here an important influence is George Bataille, especially within the sub-sect of kopimists who emphasize the power of copying in itself over any particular piece of static information. The way a loudspeaker copies music into the minds of hundreds of dancers imitating each other — and the way all of this vanishes as it happens: quite useless, but fun.
There's a tendency for reporting to focus on Sweden as some kind of pirate paradise with The Pirate Bay being the major actor, but that's a really shallow and boring focus.
I think Kopimism as a state-recognized belief community is primarily a fun hack, but also a starting point of a new and interesting fractal development. Who knows what will happen? Media and internauts will copy this meme endlessly and inspire lots of lulz and weird stuff.
To think of it as satire is to think that the categories of the world are already pre-formed and that acts and statements are just commentaries or judgments. Worse still to think it's a way to "get out of jail free" — this completely misunderstands the situation, nobody believes this.
Kopimi tells us to explore the virtual possibilities of the world. What does it mean to invent a religion of copying? Let's try it and see!