> To be fair, Kickstarter et al. are not shops "shops" doesn't mean anything. Ultimately it will be for a judge to decide the rights and the duties of Kickstar

> To be fair, Kickstarter et al. are not shops "shops" doesn't mean anything. Ultimately it will be for a judge to decide the rights and the duties of Kickstarter... or the supreme court. You sound like Uber when they say "we're not a taxi company". It's not up to them to decide what they are and cherry pick which law to follow. > the point of crowdfunding was to invest in potentially interesting ideas Where is the equity? Kickstarter is certainly not an investment plateform technically.