Not only are people running blatant Kickstarter scams but they are threatening to sue anyone who exposes their scams.

Ridiculous, that printer has been on Taobao for 6 months and the company has pictures of the printer in use from every angle to back it up. Everyone complains about Chinese stealing IP but when Western companies do the same it's effectively ignored. I've argued with Chinese 3D printer factories for years to do their own R&D- if this is what happens why should they bother?