> Just being realistic here; many of these are of Chinese make so how exactly would you stop it other than blocking them from being sold.
You already answered it: block it from being sold.
1) Make Amazon responsible for the products they are selling. 2) Introduce a law banning malware tv sticks 3) Sue Amazon for a percentage of their yearly revenue when caught violating it 4) Amazon will finally start caring and do some kind of review on the crap they sell.
If it's malware, maybe existing laws apply already. I think the bigger problem is enforcement. In China, it's easy to close up shop if anything goes wrong and then just start over. Any liability dies with the brand name.
And if the first time you get it online it just updates itself to malware?
That's the biggest problem with any device that updates.
Yea, this will work for the moment and the seller will be covered in the sense that "well, it wasn't infected when we sold it".