There is no need to crunch any numbers, the correct answer is `` Whatever you can get someone to pay for it ``

What is a car worth.....any car..LOL....whatever someone will pay you for it, same thing.

Now in a court of law, how do you prove what something is worth?.....You would need accepted guidelines, like with cars ( the NADA black book ). If there is no clear cut guideline, then what will a court or jury use as a base to make there price? A jury could be swayed to think big by the very well prepared against the very big profit makers.

And on the other hand, the companies that don`t make much profit are easy to sway a jury to thank small, they don`t make money on the product, why should they pay much to use it. Just think about Exon-Mobil`s record profits while we are paying record gas prices....that sure made the American Public very mad. Now think how a jury would look at a big profit making company like Sony. If we were to leave them in the lawsuit and not have settled for pennies on the dollar, what do you think a jury would have thought, if it came to that? But there is a two edged sword here as well, we will someday run out of players, we can`t sue a broke company and expect to collect any one time payments. ( Sure we use tons of chips that may be covered in MMP, but we are not profitable..and we can`t/ain`t paying......we sue them anyway and they have a 50 cent lawyer file a paper to the court stating that evey product sold with a MMP chip is done so at a loss just to unload the things, that the chips were a bad design and that the MMP should pay the cost difference to make up the losses..LOL ( That would be funny, I wonder how much that kind of thing goes on in court? )