Another crowd fund steal of Retro Pie?

gnome73

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/retroengine-sigma-mini-console-media-player-cool#/

Interface appears to be Retro Pie?

Anyway for you guys to get a piece of the pie on these start ups? Excuse the pun.

enderandrew

I emailed IndieGogo Support to report the campaign. But they may not listen unless they get more reports.

https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=45336

PaulCheffus

Hi

I've reported it.

Cheers

Paul

gnome73

I reported it too...

This campaign is ILLEGAL.

Today at 12:01
This campaign is promoting the raspberry pie / retro pie software interface which is not developed by this company so why should they profit from it. They are profiting from other peoples Intellectual Property which is ILLEGAL.

Post the responses you get here in this forum thread.

felleg

" $236,914 USD raised by 3014 backers "

0_______0 poor uninformed souls

Reported the campaign using enderandrew's link.

mediamogul

I normally don't get involved in stuff like this, because I'm pretty skeptical that it does any good, but I reported it as well. I went so far as to explain non commercial open source licenses to the best of my ability. Who knows, maybe all this will raise an eyebrow or two.

mediamogul

...Well, that was fast. About five minutes after the expected auto-mailing, notifying me that my message was received, I got an email from Sharon at the Indiegogo Trust & Safety Team. The first paragraph seems to be in the ball park of unique, followed by the typical form messaging.

Sharon, Dec 8, 19:31 PST:
Hi Mr. Hesseman,

Thank you for checking in about this campaign. At this time, the campaign, ‘RetroEngine Sigma - Mini Console & Media Player’, is under review to ensure that it adheres to our Terms of Use (http://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms).

So what happens now? We will include the information you have provided along with all other information at our disposal in our review of the campaign. In some cases, we will contact the campaign owner for more information or have them edit their campaign and it will remain on our platform. If we find the project or campaign owner doesn't follow our rules, we may remove the campaign. We may also restrict the campaign owner's future activities on Indiegogo.

To protect our users' privacy, we're unable to share the action we take. At Indiegogo, we take the trust and safety of our community very seriously and we greatly appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this review process. To learn more about Indiegogo’s Trust & Safety effort, please visit: www.indiegogo.com/trust

Please note that you do not need to contact us again. Doing so would create a new ticket and prolong the process. Thank you again for taking the time to get in touch with us and for helping to keep Indiegogo a safe and secure platform.

Regards,

Sharon
Trust & Safety Team

herb_fargus

@mediamogul as far as technicalities go, even though they underhandedly received consent for use of tronkyfrans assets, they based the theme off the simple theme which is a non commercial licence.

https://github.com/HerbFargus/es-theme-tronkyfran

They are skirting around the selling of non GPL licences by providing an installer though as far as intent is concerned it's no different than providing an installer that installs ROMs. When all is said and done though unless you own the rights to the copyrighted content or hire a lawyer, indiegogo has the final decision on whether or not they'll continue to support this illegal or at the very least unethical project. With any luck they'll come to the same conclusion as kisskissbankbank did with nostalgames and shutter it or they'll pull a Kickstarter and let it go through like mini emu just to get their sweet cut of the dough.

All the same, the support from the community is much appreciated. It's good to know there are still those in our community governed by morals and proper human decency. We Make RetroPie for you.

gnome73

Thanks Herb

I've had so much fun and enjoyment building my arcade cabinet and playing old retro games on what is an amazing interface and operating system that has been put together by an amazing group of people and community. I get so annoyed when I see this sort of stuff so I will always call it out and get in behind a good cause and community.

gnome73

only taken 7 days for them to reply...

Aileen, Dec 15, 19:33 PST:
Hi Russell,

Thank you for checking in about this campaign. At this time, the campaign, ‘RetroEngine Sigma - Mini Console & Media Player’, is under review to ensure that it adheres to our Terms of Use (http://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms).

So what happens now? We will include the information you have provided along with all other information at our disposal in our review of the campaign. In some cases, we will contact the campaign owner for more information or have them edit their campaign and it will remain on our platform. If we find the project or campaign owner doesn't follow our rules, we may remove the campaign. We may also restrict the campaign owner's future activities on Indiegogo.

To protect our users' privacy, we're unable to share the action we take. At Indiegogo, we take the trust and safety of our community very seriously and we greatly appreciate your patience and understanding throughout this review process. To learn more about Indiegogo’s Trust & Safety effort, please visit: www.indiegogo.com/trust

Please note that you do not need to contact us again. Doing so would create a new ticket and prolong the process. Thank you again for taking the time to get in touch with us and for helping to keep Indiegogo a safe and secure platform.
Regards,

Aileen
Trust and Safety