I am a fellow zazzler. In part it has to do with how the money changes hands and how the service is provided. I read in a previous comment that HP is a printer and shouldn't be sued, but they are not servicing what is being protected. T-shirts sounds a little trivial, but as a hypthetical let's use counterfeiting real money. Let's say printer company A has the "tools" to counterfeit money. User A doesn't have any tools so he goes to company A and asked for a counterfeit in exchange for an exchange rate. Now who does the Government go after? Probably both, but they'd want to go after the guys who actually have the equipment more than the end user. If anyone or company can say "i didn't know" as an excuse I think 99% of the population would set up shop. T-shirts seem trivial, but behind the tshirts is real dollars
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I don't think it's that simple
I am a fellow zazzler. In part it has to do with how the money changes hands and how the service is provided. I read in a previous comment that HP is a printer and shouldn't be sued, but they are not servicing what is being protected. T-shirts sounds a little trivial, but as a hypthetical let's use counterfeiting real money. Let's say printer company A has the "tools" to counterfeit money. User A doesn't have any tools so he goes to company A and asked for a counterfeit in exchange for an exchange rate. Now who does the Government go after? Probably both, but they'd want to go after the guys who actually have the equipment more than the end user. If anyone or company can say "i didn't know" as an excuse I think 99% of the population would set up shop. T-shirts seem trivial, but behind the tshirts is real dollars