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Creative Sued for Base-10 Capacities On HDD MP3 Players

Posted by Soulskill on from the basic-math dept.

Dorkz brings news of a class-action settlement from Creative Labs over the capacity of their HDD MP3 players. Evidently they calculated drive capacity in base-10 (1,000,000,000 bytes per GB) instead of base-2 (1,073,741,824 bytes per GB). The representative plaintiff is entitled to $5,000, and everyone else who bought one of the HDD MP3 players in the past several years gets a 50% discount on a new 1GB player[PDF]. They can also opt for a 20% discount on anything ordered from Creative's online store. Creative has made available all of the necessary legal forms. Seagate lost a similar lawsuit late last year.

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  2. Re:Deprecated for quite a while now by SL+Baur · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  3. Re:Well you can argue the OS is wrong by cpotoso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would give 100 pieces of gold so that I would have mod points to mod you way up. All this issue of the 2^10 being called "kilo" is plain stupidity. This coming from the same people (programmers et al). that gave us all kinds of crazy scares (some justified, some like the y2k problem not) due to their sloppy accounting of possibilities...