14 DAY TRIAL // We've been writing about a lot of Kickstarter projects lately, and of how some new rules were set in place just days ago, but now we can look at a different side of the idea hosting website: project limbo.
Limbo may be a stretch because, in some interpretations of the concept, the place can be escaped.
Alas, the projects that Kickstarter takes down, stay down, and not due to anything the site itself does. The disappearance of otherwise successful ideas is owed to other things, usually copyright infringement.
The latest example is the line of vintage-style leather bags and accessories from Vinted Goods. As you can all see, “this project is no longer available,” despite having once accumulated twice the cash needed to get off the ground.
Design shop Killspencer, issued a cease-and-desist letter to the team, after which it invoked a Digital Millennium Copyright Act in a notice to Kickstarter.
Word has it that five projects were removed since April, despite Kickstarter's stated vow that “Projects are not closed or taken down, they remain on site for reference and transparency, for the same reasons, projects cannot be deleted, even if they were canceled or unsuccessful.”