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DaveAuld2-Dec-14 23:15
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Been going on for years, but became more mainstream about 11 years ago when all the false advertising consumerism got their knickers in a twist between 1,000 and 1,024 or 1,000,000 and 1,048,576 etc. and felt they were being cheated out of bytes somewhere. D'Oh! | :doh:

Edit: changed 5 years to 11 years after doing a quick search to find the reference to the lawsuit in question and found this: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/09/18/2245200/computer-makers-sued-over-hard-drive-size[^]

and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_advertising[^], see Manipluations of measurement units and standards section.
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