Etrade may see the writing on the wall - if word gets out too much about this court case in California, Etrade will have a nightmare on their hands. if people holding all kinds of stocks with Etrade just started demanding real certs, they would probably end up folding.
I would guess, let's say, of all the pinksheet/otc stocks that Etrade holds in street name for its clients, there are probably hundreds of stocks they 'hold' that are just IOU's at the DTC.
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