- Hopefully we can finally begin to exercise our faith without being threatened with reprisals, said Isaac Gerson. He is spiritual leader of the new religion Copyism Society in Sweden.

Philosophy student Isaac Gerson is recognized as the religious community religious leader. - CC Everett does not believe in any god other than information, but sees itself as a religious community nevertheless, Gerson explains to Aftenpsoten.no.

- We are not the first religion not to believe in a personal God. In many forms of Buddhism it is also the case. We believe in the sacred values, he says.

- But with a religion we often think of a thought system that provides basic guidance of life. Copying is just a small area of ??your life. How can you have a religion about something so peripheral?

- We have grown up online and are dealing with copying all the time, so it is an essential part of life for us.

- What kind of rituals do you have?

- We have a trade show where we get together and communicate through a server, or in the same room, where we copy information to each other. When we are finished, we finish by encouraging each other to spread the copied material to others, by further duplication.

- How is this fair in comparison to ordinary piracy?

- In order to be regarded as piracy, we need to break copyright laws. We do sometimes but not always. But it is true that we embrace what is now understood as illegal copying.

- Will you use the new status to claim that you are religiously persecuted when you are accused of illegal activity?

- No, we have no opportunity. Violation of the copyright law is still illegal. There are no loopholes in the law for us.