[bidder33]

Or maybe it is simply a group of people who love jodos vision for dune. the idea of a film as a guiding prophet, visions of a flowing creative universe. and we want to play with that.

so we raised a bunch of funds and bought a cool book. now we are making an animation. we've been discussing ideas like sending funds to the makers of Jodorowskys Dune documentary which didnt even break even, as a way of thanking them too.

y'know, playing in the way we were taught, as hackers, as kids who grew up on the internet. To go out and do things, make things. hang out with our friends.

but hn would rather take a few snippets, call us all scammers and frauds, and hate on us.

but whatever.. we're gonna keep having fun ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

[monkey_monkey]

> so we raised a bunch of funds and bought a cool book.

For about 100x its estimated value. I'm not sure that's really playing with a hacker mentality.

The plan is also to burn the "cool book". Again, I'm unsure how that fits into a hacker mindset.

[bidder33]

I think playing with money systems, ideas of value etc is interesting. The average contribution was about $50 - so like a kickstarter for a fan club.

and no, the plan is not to burn the book. there is an ongoing joke by a few people in the dao. but they do not represent the majority and the aims of the dao explicitly are to do with the preservation and protection of the book. so thats not going to happen.

but people arent actually interested in conversation here. hn hates crypto. we get it. people hating something they arent a part of and dont understand. But we are still going to have fun and make things, and the good vibes win in the end.

[monkey_monkey]

Sure, I guess overpaying by 2 orders of magnitude is playing with money systems.

Do enjoy your exploration into copyright and IP law.