Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden

http://mashable.com/2012/01/05/sweden-religion-file-sharing/

From Slashdot:

Filesharing Now an Official Religion In Sweden

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 04, @01:43PM
from the but-do-they-have-snacks-and-coffee? dept.

bs0d3 writes"Kopimism is now an official religion in Sweden. Kopimi beliefs originated with the Swedish group called Piratbyran who believed that everything should be shared freely online without restrictions from copyright. Leader Isak Gerson, has recently had some disagreements with the Swedish Pirate Party where many people disagree with all religions."Here's the official website for the "Missionary Church of Kopimism."

V Cast SONG ID

Trying out the "V Cast SONG ID" app on the new Droid X. Been sitting here with the internet and radio seeing how good it is for like the past 2 hours, while I am babysitting some shell scripts. It got all the sorta ASCAP , rock / rap / dance correct. Even country western and jazz. It even got ambient electronica that is little more then just a slowly undulating humm. But Beethoven's 5th it couldn't get, even in it's most recognizable Dun Dundun Duh! *:-O Wow, now that's got to mean something.

Copyleft movies, can it be done?

hypothetically speaking, let say some big name science fiction authors were willing to allow there older stories to be made into Copyleft films done in a similar production quality as I-Robot, Blade runner, StarWars or StarTrek.

Would it be possible to raise enough to produce a big budget film that has a LGPL type license on it?
Possibly as a Non-profit where authors are paid there typical fees and actors, are paid typical fees but no investors, just grants and donations? Proceeds would be wrapped back in to produce the next movie. Sort like PBS and NPR.

How could money be raised? What are the ramifications? How to bootstrap such a project and get it played in theaters and legally distributed free on the net?

It's an interesting concept, but could it really work?
Imagine what this would do the the RIAA and the film industry.