'I wonder where the "blame trail" ends?' The blame trail may not be the issue here. A more pertinent question, (as far as sony are concerned) is 'Where does the profit trail end?' The answer to that is simple. It should end this christmas in stores all over the world when consumers avoid sony products like the plague. Sony top management couldn't give a hoot about prosecution, at least, if it happens at the lower levels, (and you can be sure that's where it would happen). All they care about is profit. No profit = no jobs. Simple. And it's up to every one of us, as consumers, to do our bit to send sony a message from now on. 'Try to screw me and I'll hit you where it hurts!'. BTW, I'm not against profit. I'm a good upstanding capitalist. But the music industry has plundered and raped consumers for decades now. They whine and moan about file sharing, but I didn't hear them whining when they were re-selling us their back-catalog on audio cassette and cd in the 80s and 90s. The record industry made enormous profits out of that little stunt, and consumers ended up buying everything 2 or 3 times. I'll be going home to scotland at christmas for my usual music/book shopping spree, but I will NOT be buying any disc that's on a sony label or sub-label. mac