Finally, Comcast has agreed to pay $16 million to settle any further litigation in its P2P blocking case. Previously, the company was alleged by Federal Communications Commission in blocking peer-to-peer websites, which was against the regulation. A lawsuit was specifically subjected by irate customers in 2007 and 2008 for blocking P2P file-sharing packets which include BitTorrent.

Though, Comcast did not agree to the accusations before it slowly accepted that it was engaged in controversial network "traffic management" techniques. It also stated that it has to use this technique to free its bandwidth. Comcast, however, did not admit the network blocking technique as illegal, stressing that it is "appropriate". It also said that it agreed to the settlement only to avoid the long legal disputes which would not be useful for anyone.

According to the settlement the affected Comcast users are about to receive $16 million and in order to take home this amount, the customer should satisfy some rules, inclduing - be either current or previous user of Comcast high-speed Internet and the user should have attempted to use BitTorrent, Ares, eDonkey, FastTrack or Gnutella between April 1st 2006 and December 31st 2008. Meanwhile Jon Hart, who filed the original claim, in November 2007, will receive $2,500.