I think this lawsuit is based on the same one that was levied against Apex and Cyberhome for the same liscensing issues, and they won. That is why they are piling on this one. Apex's argument was their suppliers had paid THEIR liscensing fee's, so that covered Apex's butt. However the liscensing fee's were not designed to be transfereable, and Apex had to pay back liscensing fee's which drove them out of business. They apparently see this as the same infraction, and they are now coming down hard on Vizio.

I think this all stems from the fact that liscensing fee's were not policed well on DVD players, and the Chinese ran amok flooding the market with cheap DVD players they did not pay liscensing fee's on, which made the player alot cheaper, and eventually drove the major's out of the business.