Monthly Archives: December 2009

Leveraging Your Settlement

Comcast owes me money. They owe lots of people money.

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In 2007 and 2008 Comcast forged TCP RST packets in order to throttle P2P and other kinds of traffic. This resulted in several class-action lawsuits. They recently settled one of them and agreed to pay each affected customer $16.

From an individual perspective this isn’t a lot. However, for those who are eligible for the settlement I have a proposal: submit your claim form and make it part of a larger donation to your local food bank or homeless shelter.

That’s what I’m going to do.