Do you think they could be trying to open up the TV firmware, like when the WRT54G settlement launched what became OpenWrt and other open firmware projects?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys_WRT54G_series#Third-pa...

That kind of thing is both a deterrent to commercial violation of licenses (unplanned open sourcing), and moves open source forward.

Though I also like the idea of monetary penalties large enough to be a deterrent.