see the light of day, except maybe through another leak. clearly there were conversations. clearly what president obama said was embarrassing to sony. i don t know what level the conversation took place, but you have to assume it was with the head of sony pictures and the sony steam in japan, which made a serious mistake early on in seeing what was in the works and not putting a halt to it much, much earlier. what happened to the liability lawyers? my guess was last week that the liability lawyers closed this down at the movie theatre chain, they said to the owners, their lawyers said look, this is a foreseeable liability. you can t take this risk. same legal conversation was had with sony executives saying look, the way tortee law is in this country, people are going to be able to have a civil claim against you if a firecracker goes on in one of those theatres and someone trips on the way out, they ll be able to sue you. it just seemed to me that was