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by alexnking
4355 days ago
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In my opinion, Kickstarter projects should not be legally obligated to deliver hardware rewards. We already have something just like that called "stores" and "preorders". I want to fund projects where the creators don't need to be 100% sure their idea will work before having the means to try it out. And I certainly don't want people to be able to sue those creators if it doesn't work out. |
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There's an easy way around that for projects, don't offer the output of the project as a reward for backing it.
> I want to fund projects where the creators don't need to be 100% sure their idea will work before having the means to try it out.
Okay, back projects where the creators don't offer the output of the project as the reward for backing it. (Or, projects where the development is already done, and the Kickstarter is just being done for initial production costs, so the product isn't speculative.)
> And I certainly don't want people to be able to sue those creators if it doesn't work out.
The only reason people could sue the creators is if the creators offered something in exchange for money, received the money, and didn't deliver as promised.
The creators are in full control of what they offer as rewards. It seems to me that the problem is that some people want creators to be able to use the promise of a product they don't know that they can produce as inducement for people to give money, but not be obligated to actually follow through.