Companies are not and never will be people, and hearsay is necessary for markets to work. "Innocent until proven guilty" only makes sense with people; with companies, it should be "Innocent unless there's reasonable suspicion to assume literally anything else," in most cases.
On top of that, this isn't an uncommon circumstance: the counterfeit problem on Amazon brings up 1,812 results with a completely unsophisticated search of HN; there are a lot of different variations of that, it's probably half-again that number.
There's no question of whether you have the right to assume guilt.
It's only that, logically, if you rush to judgment on anything, you don't in fact care about the issue that much. You can't convince someone rational that you both do and don't concern yourself with it.
On top of that, this isn't an uncommon circumstance: the counterfeit problem on Amazon brings up 1,812 results with a completely unsophisticated search of HN; there are a lot of different variations of that, it's probably half-again that number.
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