Some ISPs have decided that instead of going after piracy or pursuing users who utilize an unfair amount of bandwidth, that they will simply throttle all gushes. This implies that instead of having a quick connection like one would normally, when on torrents the speeds are decreased considerably or perhaps shut off entirely with interruptions to the connection. The issue with this is that it does not fix the real issue and only targets ethical users of torrents unjustly.

How Torrent Throttling Injures Ethical Torrent Users