They size doesn’t matter, but bragging about your size when it’s not quite as big as you’re claiming can land you in hot water. That’s just what happened to Creative when they ‘misrepresented’ the size of their MP3 players, and the number of files they were capable of holding.

Apparently they’d exaggerated about their size by as much as 50%. As a result, anyone who purchased a Creative MP3 player in the US between May 5th 2001 and April 30th 2008 could receive a financial settlement.

Creative have now been ordered to make disclosures on the size and capacity of their models. They also have to offer customers who had purchased their players between those dates the opportunity to purchase a new 1GB MP3 player for half price, or if they prefer to receive a 20% discount on any of their products.

Any consumer wishing to claim must do so by August 7th, and they’re entitled to one claim per player bought.

According to Creative:

Creative has denied and continues to deny each and all of plaintiffs’ claims, and denies that anyone has been harmed or deserves compensation.

Seagate previously had to settle over exaggerated claims on the size of the capacity on their hard drives.