WD Settles Class Suit; Victims Get Free Software

Falcone · 1st Jul 2006, 12:36 PM

So who bought a Western Digital lately?

Quote:

Western Digital Corp. this week agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed against it by allowing consumrs to download free backup and recovery software from the company's web site.

For those customers who purchased Western Digital hard drives between March 22, 2001 and February 15, 2006, the company will provide free backup and recovery software, valued at about $30. Customers must go to the settlement web site and register. The offer expires July 15.
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A plaintiff had originally filed suit against WD for allegedly misrepresenting the size of the company's drives. For example, drives that were advertised as 80 GB had an actual capacity of only 74.4 GB.

"This settlement ends a misleading practice and compensates anyone who was harmed," said attorney Adam Gutride of Gutride Safier LLP, which represented the plaintiff. "Each purchaser is entitled to software with an estimated retail value of $30."

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1984225,00.asp

link to Western Digital settlement:
http://www.westerndigital.com/settlement/
http://www.wdc.com/settlement/docs/document20.htm

jamotto · 1st Jul 2006, 02:45 PM

I can't believe it, Western Digital agreed to settle

mmm, well if it worked here ...So who's with me in filing a class-action lawsuit against Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Fujitsu.

s p r a n k i k o · 1st Jul 2006, 03:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jamotto

I can't believe it, Western Digital agreed to settle

mmm, well if it worked here ...So who's with me in filing a class-action lawsuit against Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi and Fujitsu.

I'm in! But let's just make sure we get more than $30 this time!!

Chai · 2nd Jul 2006, 02:40 AM

Crap...I bought my WD740 like a month after that...

jamotto · 2nd Jul 2006, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Chai

Crap...I bought my WD740 like a month after that...

Go ahead and run the drive's serial past them, depending how they estimate when the drive was sold you may still be eligible.

Adrian Wong · 4th Jul 2006, 10:59 PM

Oh well, they aren't actually spending any money on this... Hehe.. The software is essentially free.

PsYkHoTiK · 5th Jul 2006, 12:01 AM

Wheee.,... Free programs for me...

Chai · 5th Jul 2006, 07:31 AM

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Originally Posted by jamotto

Go ahead and run the drive's serial past them, depending how they estimate when the drive was sold you may still be eligible.

Yup, maybe. I will try now.

jamotto · 26th Jul 2006, 06:54 AM

So who has got their copy of the software, anyone?

E-mail arrived on the 18th, tried to download on the 19th, got a message that said the downloads where unavailabe til they reworked the site. Now it's the 25th and it's still not working.

Chai · 26th Jul 2006, 09:10 AM

I received the email, but didn't bother to download.

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