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Re:State court orders Kickstarted game creator to pay $54k f... by hueving on Friday September 11, 2015 @07:23PM (#10206667)
They are nothing close to debt. If they were, you would be getting back cash at the end. Heinz can't take a loan for a million dollars and send back a tank full of ketchup as repayment.
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Re:State court orders Kickstarted game creator to pay $54k f... by dragonwriter on Friday September 11, 2015 @08:30PM (#10206821)
> Heinz can't take a loan for a million dollars and send back a tank full of ketchup as repayment.

Yeah, if you take money now for product later, that's an order rather than a bond.

But, then, looked at that way, Kickstarters are more like stores than any form of financing.

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