Creative has been successfully sued for telling punters that its mp3 players were smaller than they actually were.
Incredibly, the company has been brought to book for giving people more than they thought they were getting – with Vibhu Talwar and Patrick Finkelstein’s complaint now granted Class Action status.
Creative worked on the incorrect assumption that 1GB was exactly one billion bytes 1,000,000,000B rather than the 1,073,741,824B is should be.
Un-classy action
After 2004 Creative made this point clear in its documentation, but anyone in the US who bought a Creative MP3 player before that proviso appeared can file a claim.
So if you are American and feel hard done by with the excess of storage you received you can now get half off a $35 Creative Zen Stone or get a 20% discount on your next Creative purchase.
Only in America…
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Incredibly, the company has been brought to book for giving people more than they thought they were getting – with Vibhu Talwar and Patrick Finkelstein’s complaint now granted Class Action status.
Creative worked on the incorrect assumption that 1GB was exactly one billion bytes 1,000,000,000B rather than the 1,073,741,824B is should be.
Un-classy action
After 2004 Creative made this point clear in its documentation, but anyone in the US who bought a Creative MP3 player before that proviso appeared can file a claim.
So if you are American and feel hard done by with the excess of storage you received you can now get half off a $35 Creative Zen Stone or get a 20% discount on your next Creative purchase.
Only in America…
More...