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That's a common, if naive, misconception. How exactly is a plaintiff going to enforce a judgment against a manufacturer overseas, or against an Internet-enabled
by zebraflask 10y ago
That's a common, if naive, misconception. How exactly is a plaintiff going to enforce a judgment against a manufacturer overseas, or against an Internet-enabled thermostat?
The US legal system, at least, was designed for quite a few things, but enforcing Econ 101 was not one of them.
- philiphodgen 10y agoThe lawsuit will work because US distributors and retailers (hi Amazon) have joint and several liability for damage caused by defective products they sell. You don't have to chase small anonymous overseas manufacturers. Distributors, acting in their own self-interest, choose to not sell the offending products.
- natch 10y agoThe lawsuit will never happen, because the consumer isn't the one feeling the harm in this case. The party feeling the harm doesn't know what the device was, where it was, whether it is still on any network, whether it is behind NAT, who owns the device, who bought the device, who distributed the device, who the retailer was, or what the attributes of the device are. So they will have a hell of a time filing a lawsuit, or, even if they try, getting standing to sue anybody.