Comcast Subscribers Get $16 Each for P2P
A class action lawsuit filed against Comcast in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has resulted in a settlement that entitles certain Comcast users between April 1, 2006 and December 31, 2008 to $16.
In 2007, John Hart of California filed a suit against Comcast when he noticed the company limited "the speed of certain internet applications such as peer-to-peer file sharing and lotus notes [sic]."
Ars Technica reports that a proposed settlement of $16 million has been approved and finalized and Comcast subscribers who used Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack, or Gnutella will receive $16 if they file a claim before August 29, 2010.
All those individual payments of $16, plus $3 million for the lawyers who worked on the case, amounts to a settlement total of $16 million.
Read full details of the suit on Ars. Details on claiming can be found here.

Let me guess you work for Comcast. Tell Comcast to invest in their infrastructure. And it wasnt a mistake it was against the contract that they wrote. It was a breech of contract and they should have had to pay alot more than 16million.
So if I had my internet speed cut to 2k/sec for running a p2p program when my advertised speed was 10mb/sec that warrants me 16 bucks to make it all better? If I lose a day of service due to problems with the cable line they give me more money than that!
I agree with every one, they should have paid out the teeth for this.
But it would've cost more the improve their services..that's why they chose the more profitable way out
So at the very least, stop bitching about it and go collect your $16 if your a Comcast customer. I know I will.
No, you don't admit to illegally sharing anything. Since when is P2P illegal? Most Linux ISO's that I download are with torrents, since that puts less load on the servers. The 3GB mod I downloaded yesterday was also over a torrent. As were all the patches for StarCraft II.
Of course later we learned they were capping our connection because we used bittorrent, but never going back to them again.