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Writing on their forum before the purchase, one user outlined an idea to
create a "first-of-a-kind" purchase of a culturally significant work, then
"issue a collection of NFTs that are technically innovative and culturally
disruptive".

In the plan, they talk about buying a book, converting it into JPGs, then
burning the book, meaning that the "only copies" remaining will be the
JPGs.

The poster believed that this would enhance the value of the NFT chain as
the only legal copy of the book, and would be an "incredible marketing
stunt" and may even present an opportunity to sell a video 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 releasing an animated series of the novel,
which would undoubtedly get them sued into the ground by the actual
copyright holders, currently The Herbert Limited Partnership, should they
so choose.

"We are in the development stage of our original animated limited series
at a time when streaming wars are seeing media groups compete to spend
$100+ billion on new content," they wrote in a follow-up tweet.

Who wants to tell them?

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