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

[jedi]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:40:03PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 12:16 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> >On Friday 12 March 2010 09:56:04 am Travis Tabbal wrote:
> >>On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Brian Wood 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.
> >Not only does the software cost them nothing (they probably get paid for
> >including it with drives in a "teaser" version, IOW "CrapWare"), but it's
> >probably some sort of service that requires monthly payments, thus generating
> >additional revenue. What sort of a "punishment" is that? This will only
> >encourage others to produce "defective" products that will generate additional
> >revenue.
> >
> >The cash offering is ridiculously small.
> >
> >Sort of like the giant settlement announced today for the WTC workers, the
> >lawyers will get 33% of the total, the doctors and hospitals about 60%, so
> >that leaves pennies for the actual victims.
> 
> It's almost like Seagate did nothing at all wrong--you know when
> they told us they sold us a 500GB hard drive and they sold us a
> 500GB hard drive!  (The nerve!)

   Yes. The nerve of using a base 10 number to describe an object 
commonly described in base 2 limitations. Beaurocratic revisionism
by non-interested busybodies aren't really the point. Seagate 
profited from any potential confusion. They could have shown good
intent by merely being more explicit in their labeling (as they were
evetually forced to).

   This reminds me of the advertised sizes of CRT monitors.