A few days ago the news of the Japanese spread a lot married to a hologram and which is defined as “sexual thrust”. I’m not sure what it means, but the story reminded me of the first, and I believe only, “copimist marriage” in history.
On April 28, 2012, ten years ago. I don’t know if you remember what it was, what “copimism” should have been: a kind of religion, the religion of copy and paste. He called himself “a true church”: founded in Sweden two years earlier by a 19-year-old philosophy student. Sweden was no coincidence: The Pirate Bay site was born there, which supported an extreme form of copy and paste, file-sharing with music and video files; there the Pirate Party was born also from the discussions generated by the Piratbyran hacker collective (of which the founder of copimism was part).
In short, being two different realities, something copymists and pirates had in common. The idea of the “church” was to encourage copying and sharing. The religion of file-sharing.
Ten years later, traces of it have been lost: only this marriage of 28 April remains; in Belgrade, Serbia, between a Romanian woman and an Italian. He only talked about it a rather authoritative American newspaper a few days later, publishing an amused breaking latest news (“Until the delete key does not separate us”) and also a photo where you can see an officiant with the Guy Fawkes mask, and the couple, he dressed as a troll, with orange hair like a helmet; she in a black and white sleeveless tunic and gods long black gloves almost to the shoulders. According to the chronicler at the ceremony there were “shouts, a kiss and a crowd of friends”. The ceremony took place on the occasion of the Share conference.
With this detail I have recovered on YouTube the video of the fateful “yes” moment. The officiant’s metallic voice is heard, then that of the groom (“Luciano”) who promises to share his love and knowledge of him “as long as the information exists”; then she will do the same and the audience will explode in a roar. Who knows what happened to them.