Comcast to Pay $16 million for BitTorrent Throttling

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Comcast, the ISP that gained a bad rap when last year it was accused a number of times of interfering with the traffic of p2p users and pledged good behavior in January 2009, settled its class-action lawsuit yesterday. The company agreed to pay $16 million (minus $3 million in fees) damage compensation to those customers who had their bandwidth throttled. Comcast’s statement came shortly after: “We are pleased to have reached a settlement in these consolidated class action lawsuits.