I saw a report that Shaw cable in Canada is introducing technology to specifically limit Bittorrent traffic. This is currently the easiest way to transfer large files.

Are they trying to save money? (Shaw made about $160 million income on revenues of about $2.2 billion in FY2005.)

Is it an attempt to reduce peer-to-peer piracy?

What about the legal bittorrent sites I use?

If Shaw wants to cap bittorrent, OK. But they must be up front with their customers who can then decide if they want to switch to DSL.

Shaw secretly limits BitTorrent uploads.