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Kickstarter Identity theft

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A post warning others of what I found just an hour ago.

 

I had a project hosted on Indiegogo of a case for the raspberry pi.

 

I have just found all my material on Kickstarters website hosted by a user pretending to be me. He claims he is from the Uk, and is taking money under my name. He even has my videos linked.

 

Due to the seriousness of this, and the fact that it is identity theft I intend making this viral. This could have serious impact to my name and career should the hacker fund the project, and do a run with the funds.

 

The project name is Raspberry Slice - it can be found archived on the Indiegogo website, and is now currently funding on Kickstarter!!!!

 

I have posted about it on Kickstarters Facebook page, and also reported it on their site.

 

This is really, really, not good enough and scary when you think about it. Their screening is obviously terrible, as is their user checks.

 

 

Brian Garvey.

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  • KS has always made me shudder at the thought of showing the world your new ideas only to have them snatched by whoever wants to. Just like the US Pat Off, your patent is just a way for large corps to get your innovations for free. Whenever a little guy is ripped off by a big corp, they always lose...without $millions$ to battle in court, tough schitt.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Mike Crane wrote:

     

    KS has always made me shudder at the thought of showing the world your new ideas only to have them snatched by whoever wants to. Just like the US Pat Off, your patent is just a way for large corps to get your innovations for free. Whenever a little guy is ripped off by a big corp, they always lose...without $millions$ to battle in court, tough schitt.

    Not always -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/i4i -- but as a general rule patents are a game for the rich.  IMO as a small outfit your greatest danger is from "non-practicing entities", better known as "patent trolls".

  • in reply to johnbeetem

    There are definitely issues with the patent system that I think stifles creativity in many ways.

     

    I guess by "patent trolls" you mean those folks who register patents for ideas and never actually implement them, hoping to make money off other people later doing the real work?

     

    My wife (superartgirl.com) was selling her stuffed "muLLies" dolls on Etsy and at one point decided it would be a good idea to add little tag loops for babies to fiddle with - like the taggie blankets. She very quickly got the dolls removed from Etsy because of patent infringement. They gave us the patent details, which was interesting - apparently some company had patented that idea, even though they are not actually producing them. But as an artist handmaking dolls, it's not worth fighting that. Clip the loops and carry on image.

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  • in reply to johnbeetem

    There are definitely issues with the patent system that I think stifles creativity in many ways.

     

    I guess by "patent trolls" you mean those folks who register patents for ideas and never actually implement them, hoping to make money off other people later doing the real work?

     

    My wife (superartgirl.com) was selling her stuffed "muLLies" dolls on Etsy and at one point decided it would be a good idea to add little tag loops for babies to fiddle with - like the taggie blankets. She very quickly got the dolls removed from Etsy because of patent infringement. They gave us the patent details, which was interesting - apparently some company had patented that idea, even though they are not actually producing them. But as an artist handmaking dolls, it's not worth fighting that. Clip the loops and carry on image.

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