Oh come ON.

Why not just call it what it is?

Throttling. They are throttling the traffic so low that it is no longer worth it to try it.

It was a big selling point when my former network decided to go with Cisco. The salesman said - "Oh, yes, well you are academic, so you can't censor, but with our product, you can throttle it down so low no one will try it on your network."

That's rather underhanded, but customers don't know any better....do they?

"Comcast on Monday again denied that it was cutting off peer-to-peer access after a technology think tank posted two separate blog posts that backed up news reports of the ISP cutting access to the file sharing applications like BitTorrent and Gnutella.

"Comcast does not block access to any Web sites or online applications, including peer-to-peer services like BitTorrent," a Comcast spokeswoman said Monday. "