Some ISPs have decided that instead of going after piracy or pursuing users who utilize an unreasonable amount of bandwidth, that they will simply throttle all torrents. This means that instead of having a fast connection like one would normally, when on torrents the speeds are lowered significantly or even shut off totally with disturbances to the connection. The issue with this is that it does not fix the genuine problem and only targets ethical users of gushes unfairly.

How Torrent Throttling Harms Ethical Torrent Users