Unbelievable

This whole binary vs. regular units is getting rather silly, IMO.

You see, there are clear definitions by people who define these things:

http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

If anyone checks, they'll find that KB is indeed 1,000 bytes, etc. 1,024 is KiB. Not the same at all.

It's unfortunate that a company has to pay for using the correct units. It's even more unfortunate that not a single lawyer on their team was aware of the existence of page above, evidently.

HDD Manufactures

Just wondering how come people are suing Creative while hard drive manufatures have been claming 1GB = 1000MB rather then 1024MB per GB for many years and they don't get sued?

Combative Attitudes

Is this sort of activity greed or is it redressing the balance? Are such actions the odd case of satisfaction or is it an industry. When those predatory vanguards for “justice” are driving the train, it’s an industry. Unless you can see a real change in attitide from indifference, sloppiness, etc [which there won’t be where money is concerned], you are merely talking about jacking up the cost for the “rest of us”. One reason why everything is indexed to greed and not to real costs. And these “entrepreneurial” chosen-few habits are being entrenched here in the UK. The likes of Creative will never suffer. It’s one’s attitude that suffers. What the individual has become. A never-ending combative greedy idiot-cum-nut. The fact that the zero-sum game wheel will always spin is not the point. It is how many it hoovers-up is the point, which in overall terms means a step-down for all whilst not forgettng that momentum is everything. One step here and there and you’ll soon be talking about saving the world, tree-stumps and animals too.