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

[Brian Wood]

On Friday 12 March 2010 09:56:04 am 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.
> 

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.