If you live in a country where downloading copyrighted content from the internet is a criminal offense, a single mistake could cost you a lot of money or even time in jail.

Content creators use this symbol, which looks like a blocky letter k, to encourage people to copy and distribute their work.

In many ways, Kopimi may seem like a non-restrictive content license, similar to Creative Commons Zero, but its creators have never described it as such.

The Pirate Bay owners used the terms kopimistic and kopimists in when they attempted to purchase Sealand, a micronation in the North Sea.

With the help of all the kopimists on internets, we want to buy Sealand. In , the Swedish government reluctantly recognized Kopimism as a religion in the country, making The Pirate Bay a poster child of the anti-copyright movement.

Founded in January , The Pirate Bay is one of the oldest torrent sites in the world, but not the oldest. There are at least three torrent sites that launched even earlier:.

It was forced to close its doors in after legal threats. In , the site donated its domain name to The Pirate Bay, whose administrators decided to relaunch it.

The site lost a prolonged legal batter with conglomerates of IP rights holders over allegations of copyright infringing in and was forced to shut down.

The site experienced multiple prolonged periods of downtime and survived several battles with copyright watchdogs and internet service providers, but there have been reports of its creator passing away, leaving it without a leader.

To make things go a bit faster, he recommended getting a gigabit internet connection because then it would take only 2 years. These statistics provide a glimmer of hope that The Pirate Bay is here to stay by showing how great the site is doing.

Of course, its biggest enemy have always been copyright holders and the organizations that represent them—not competing torrent sites.

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