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Beginning of Kopimism 2010
Gustav Nipe and Isak Gerson, a 19-year-old philosophy student, created the Missionary Church of Kopimism , a congregation of file sharers that consider copying information to be a sacred virtue, in Uppsala, Sweden, in the fall of 2010. -
Disputes
Both of the founders, Gerson and Nipe, played significant roles in the Swedish Piracy Movement and are well-versed in internet activism. Many in Sweden began to ask why this group was founded in light of this. When the group attempted to register as a religion in 2011, Christian newspapers and the media took issue with it. The Missionary Church of Kopimism was criticized for being "just for show," "a political trick," and "making religion less important." -
The first wedding
The first wedding was organized by the Missionary Church of Kopimism on April 28, 2012. The marriage of an Italian man and a Romanian woman took place in Belgrade, Serbia. A Kopimistic Op in a Guy Fawkes mask led the sacred rites, with a computer reading aloud vows and some of Kopimism's core doctrines.