Creative coughs up over MP3 player fiasco
2 May 2008 | 08:31 BST
Confused capacities
CREATIVE is still refusing to comment on its alleged settlement of a class action suit brought against the company in California.
The action supposedly stemmed from the fact that Creative calculated drive capacity in base ten (1,000,000,000 bytes per GB) instead of base two (1,073,741,824 bytes per GB). The action claimed that Creative misrepresented the capacity of its MP3 players.
Anyone upset about losing seven per cent of their player's capacity who can still find the receipt for a Creative MP3 player purchased between May 5, 2001 and April 30, 2008 is eligible to receive a 50 per cent discount on a new 1GB player or a 20 per cent discount at the company's online store.
All claims need to be submitted by August 7.
Creative denied that anyone has been harmed or deserves compensation due to its actions and has rather cleverly defused the situation by getting the moaning minnies to cough up even more cash. Nice one.
The INQUIRER asked Creative for comment late yesterday UK time and we're still waiting. If we don't hear back by noon, we'll sue. Just you see if we don't. µ
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