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Wait... Ebay is merely a marketplace where people or vendors use the platform to sell their goods.
Shouldn't the individuals be sued?
Or maybe it's because they could be in another country, so they go after the platform itself for allowing such devices to be sold?
Going after the marketplace is a more efficient strategy than playing whack a mole with individual sellers.
The correct way would be to go after the buyers
The war on drugs would like a word.
As would the RIAA's war on piracy. Despite the exhorbitant fines being handed down, I don't believe they've made any profit from them.