Unlike the official Bit Torrent client, Azureus uses encryption to get around ISPs that throttle the application to conserve bandwidth. It would be painfully ironic for ISPs to throttle the official Bit Torrent video store while a competitor's traffic gets through because they used a solution Cohen never approved of.

said by rogersuser :

Umm, I read those threads, and those are morons. Rogers is NOT throttling the encrypted traffic. PERIOD. By definition, you CAN'T throttle encrypted traffic, because the traffic CANNOT BE ANALYZED. The people who are experiencing the 'slowdowns' haven't set their computers up correctly. With the right client (i.e. utorrent), you can ensure 100% of your traffic is encrypted, and the ISP is incapable of throttling that traffic. The ONLY thing the ISP 'could' do is throttle a port to a maximum speed, say 50Kb. However, that would limit EVERY application to 50Kb, and the end result would be you are paying for a 50Kb connection.