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

[jedi]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:16:08AM -0700, 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 <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.

   There's typically a 3 way split in these things.

   The lawyers get a cut (they are not a charity), the doctors get a cut 
(because they are also not charities), and then the plaintiffs get a cut
for "pain and suffering" and such.

   Doctors get a lot more from PI lawyers than they ever get from the 
insurance industry or the Feds.

   Tort verdicts are actually supposed to be for damages. Those damages
are typically treated by doctors and such.

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