A group of crypto   partizan has made an unusual leverage : arare transcript ofDune , by skill fiction writer   Frank Herbert , for a staggering € 2.66 million ( $ 3.04 million ) .

It ’s an odd occurrence when a book expected to fetch   € 25,000 sound for   100 fourth dimension that amount , but the stranger part is that the buyers – a corporate visit SpiceDAO – appear to conceive that owning an other written matter of the pip sci - fi about space worms contribute them the copyright , to do with what they will .

" We win the auction for € 2.66 M , "   SpiceDaowroteon Twitter . " Now our mission is to : 1 . Make the book public ( to the extent permit by law ) . 2 . bring on an original animated limited series inspired by the Koran and sell it to a streaming service . 3 . Support derivative projects from the community . "

In fact , they have buy none of these rights . They have bribe a book .   This is like pick up a written matter ofLord of The Ringsand believing you may make the official film yourself now .

indite ontheir forumbefore the purchase , one user sketch an idea to make a " first - of - a - kind " purchase of a culturally meaning piece of work , then " supply a collection of NFTs that are technically advanced and culturally disruptive " .

In the plan , they utter about buying a book , converting it into JPGs , then incinerate the playscript , intend that the " only copies " stay will be the JPGs .

The poster believed that this would enhance the note value of the NFT mountain range as the only effectual copy of the Scripture , and would be an " incredible marketing stunt " and may even   stage an chance to sell a video recording of them burning the book as an NFT .

In their announcement for having purchased the book ( which again is not the copyright ) however , their goal appeared to be to allow others to read it by making it public , before relinquish an animated serial publication of the novel , which would undoubtedly get them process into the ground by the actual copyright holders , presently   The Herbert Limited Partnership , should they so choose .

" We are in the development stagecoach of our original animated limited series at a time when streaming war are see medium groups vie to drop $ 100 + billion on newfangled content , " theywrote in a succeed - up tweet .

Who wants to distinguish them ?