[mythtv-users] Fwd: Further Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement

[jedi]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:56:04AM -0700, Travis Tabbal wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just in case anyone missed this.
> >
> > WOW! Free backup and recovery software. Be still my heart :-)
> 
> 
> 
> And again the lawyers get loads of money while customers get nothing of
> worth. I shouldn't be surprised. At least with the Deathstars I got $100 out
> of it, so they bought me a new drive. They should at least be required to
> swap out the defective drives with new ones or something like that.

   This is about the whole 1024 vs 1000 thing. Even if you were to get a cut
of a personal damage award for this, it probably wouldn't be much. It probably
wouldn't be enough to cover the extra shipping charges involved in an RMA.

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