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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by Animats on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:22PM (#12687673)
Nolo Press: "In between the manufacturer and the retailer, there may be any number of wholesalers, suppliers, distributors, or other "middlemen." Each and all are part of the chain of distribution of the defective product, are therefore potentially liable, and should be named as defendants in your defective product lawsuit."

Cloudflare can start by suing a retailer. That's likely to result in the retailer pulling all merchandise from the offending vendor, even before the lawsuit gets very far. (Otherwise, they move to a higher tier of negligence and damages for knowingly allowing the problem to persist.) That will start to get the attention of manufacturers.

See this article.[1]

[1] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/lock-it-down-ddos-attack...

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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by pixl97 on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @03:39PM (#12687844)
Lots of this crap gets shipped straight from China by a distributor on Amazon. Try to sue them and I'm sure they'll just disappear and come back with a different name
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Re:Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming... by mynameislegion on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @10:48PM (#12690112)
Sue Amazon?
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