by sbriggman » Thu Aug 28, 2014 5:22 pm
To be honest, I'm not 100% sure. I think there are activities (research as mentioned in the article) that can be taken while the campaign is live. It's hard though if after the project is done a creator decides to make off with the funds or is not able to deliver the product.
I think if the creator in some way does not deliver the product because they miscalculated a portion of the project (but they spent the funds trying to do so), then that's more reasonable. That's part of the risk with Kickstarter.
If the creator deliberately didn't deliver the product, that's in the scam category. Only way to get less people to do that is to take legal action against people.
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