The move will represent a major policy shift for the cable monopoly and is likely to anger advocates of "net neutrality", who say all internet traffic should be treated equally. Virgin Media currently temporarily throttles the bandwidth of its heaviest downloaders across all applications at peak times, rather than targeting and "shaping" specific types of traffic."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/16/virgin_bittorrent/
BitTorrent is nothing but an efficient way to transfer files. Pirates will be affected, including people that uses torrents because they find it difficult to access media from other countries. But not only pirates gets affected by this, but non-profit organisations, open source projects like linux distros, grassroots movements that doesn't have the ability to fund their distributions, Virgin Media is restricting all of them.
True the bittorrent protocol do put other protocol requests in queue, but i don't think the best solution is to slow down everyones downloads. Especially not when pirates are downloading since they are all terrorists, as RIAA says in their training videos. Apparently they have access to handguns too, although i'm not really sure why they need firearms to download things.
Maybe a good solution would be to make web pages peer-to-peer based, since most browsers downloads the webpage in a cache to the harddrive anyways, and keep torrents having priority on the internet.
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