The class-action lawsuit against Comcast over throttling peer-to-peer transfers has concluded, with users receiving just up to $16 for the inconvenience.

Judge Legrome Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has given final approval to a class-action settlement involving Comcast's "throttling" of Internet service, lawyers administering the settlement said Thursday.

Users have until August 29 to file a claim at the settlement site, and there's a possibility that users won't receive the full $16. Options to opt out and file separate suits expired in May, as Comcast's settlement agreement detailed. Comcast does not admit any wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement.

Jon Hart, who filed the original claim, will take home $2,500.

In November 2007, Hart sued Comcast in a California Superior Court, accusing Comcast of blocking customer access to P2P sites like BitTorrent and Gnutella via software that surreptitiously cancels file-sharing connections. The case was later transferred to a Pennsylvania court.

Comcast admitted to delaying P2P traffic during peak times, but denied ever blocking a particular site or application. The Federal Communications Commission disagreed and hit Comcast with an enforcement action last year, which required Comcast to be more transparent about its network management policies.

Any current or former Comcast customer who used the Ares, BitTorrent, eDonkey, FastTrack or Gnutella P2P protocols any time from April 1, 2006 to December 31, 2008 and was unable to share files, or believes that the speed at which files were shared was affected, is eligible to file a claim. Customers who were unable to use Lotus Notes to send emails any time from March 26, 2007 to October 3, 2007 are also eligible.