Even as this Scandinavian country, like other nations across
Europe, bows to pressure from big media concerns to stop file sharing, a
Swedish government agency this year registered as a bona fide religion a
church whose central dogma is that file sharing is sacred.
“For me it is a kind of believing in deeper values than worldly
values,” said Isak Gerson, a philosophy student at Uppsala University
who helped found the church in 2010 and bears the title chief
missionary. “You have it in your backbone.”
Kopimism — the name comes from a Swedish spelling of the words
“copy me” — claims more than 8,000 faithful who have signed up on the church’s Web site.
It has applied for the right to perform marriages and to receive
subsidies awarded to religious organizations by the state, and it has
bid, thus far unsuccessfully, to buy a church building, even though most
church activities are conducted online.
— In Sweden, Taking File Sharing to Heart. And to Church.
Hackers Allegedly Steal Sony’s Archive Of 50k+ Michael Jackson Tracks:
Hackers reportedly illegally downloaded over Michael Jackson’s entire back catalog, consisting of 50,000 tracks, many never released. Sony purchased the catalog from Jackson’s estate for $250 (£157.51) million last year.
W.E.N.N. reports, “The attack was discovered weeks after hackers targeted Sony’s PlayStation Network in April, but was only confirmed by a Sony Music representative on Saturday.The UK’s Daily Star reports, "Record bosses only discovered the theft of 50,000 music files when a worker saw Jackson fans chatting about it on forums."
Source: PaidContent
News of raids, arrests,
seizures, extraditions and jail time in the file-sharing world hasn’t
gone unnoticed by the operators of major BitTorrent sites. Yesterday,
the owners of BTjunkie decided to close their site because the stress
became too much, and there are others who consider doing the same. While
there are still plenty site owners who are determined to continue,
doubt and uncertainty are more present than ever before.
Via:
TorrentFreak
