Editing Binary prefix (section)

==== ''Willem Vroegh v. Eastman Kodak Company'' ====
On 20 February 2004, [[Vroegh v. Eastman Kodak Co.|Willem Vroegh filed a lawsuit]] against Lexar Media, Dane–Elec Memory, [[Fujifilm|Fuji Photo Film USA]], [[Eastman Kodak]] Company, Kingston Technology Company, Inc., [[Memorex]] Products, Inc.; [[PNY Technologies]] Inc., [[SanDisk|SanDisk Corporation]], [[Verbatim Corporation]], and [[Viking Interworks]] alleging that their descriptions of the capacity of their [[flash memory]] cards were false and misleading.

Vroegh claimed that a 256&nbsp;MB Flash Memory Device had only 244&nbsp;MB of accessible memory. "Plaintiffs allege that Defendants marketed the memory capacity of their products by assuming that one megabyte equals one million bytes and one gigabyte equals one billion bytes." The plaintiffs wanted the defendants to use the customary values of 1024<sup>2</sup> for megabyte and 1024<sup>3</sup> for gigabyte. The plaintiffs acknowledged that the IEC and IEEE standards define a MB as one million bytes but stated that the industry has largely ignored the IEC standards.<ref name="vreo2005" />

The parties agreed that manufacturers could continue to use the decimal definition so long as the definition was added to the packaging and web sites.<ref name="sand2012" /> The consumers could apply for "a discount of ten percent off a future online purchase from Defendants' Online Stores Flash Memory Device".<ref name="safi2007" />