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The Canadian copyright lawyer I talked to says no: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/popcorn-time-is-like-netfl...

According to the Livestream embed, "This Event Has Been Deleted"

Rdio offers "Protected Accounts" http://blog.rdio.com/us/2012/09/now-available-on-rdio-protec...

It's worth noting that their campaign page has been reduced to a simple "Sorry, this project is no longer available" message. This, despite Kickstarter's claim that projects are ke…

Here's an ongoing dump of TKBM's data: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1ecu_DI...

As requested: https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1ecu_DI... The KickBack Machine dumps lots of data into this Fusion Table on an ongoing basis. Please feel free t…

That's kind of you to say. Radio's my day job.

Indeed, the aggregate numbers are there, but it's extremely difficult to find individual examples of success/failure by category or goal. That's the point of TKBM.

It's an incomplete list. TKBM has only been tracking projects that ended since mid-June 2012. According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all project…

According to my numbers, since mid-June 2012, the overall success rate for all projects in all categories has been ~72%. Much higher than Kickstarter's all-time success rate of ~44…

Indeed, the launch date is there, but it's only accurate to the day. To figure out the actual launch date+time, you need to look at the deadline and subtract the project duration, …

Search is on the roadmap, for sure. That said, Kickstarter's existing search function performs very well. The primary purpose of TKBM is to collect Kickstarter projects together by…

Not sure what you mean by this? What would be in the "events" category? Currently, the category list mirrors Kickstarter's own.

Solid suggestion. I suppose that the length and colour of the progress bar is probably enough to signal whether a project was successful or not. Thanks.

Right now, it only tracks funding, not follow-through.

Good point. I could have chosen a less specific example to point out that "failed" projects still show up in search results.

That's exactly the kind of thing I'd like to be able to do. For instance, I'd love to know which categories have the highest success rates, etc.

In 2011, Kickstarter reported its overall project success rate as 44%: http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/shortening-the-maximum-proje...

Kickstarter certainly seems to have a higher success rate than rival Indiegogo, where 2/3 of projects don't meet their funding goals.