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Shaw trottles any Bit Torrent connections. If you establish anything with Bit Torrent, your entire connection is dramatically slowed. And they had completely blocked MTS webmail. Conversely MTS had blocked Shaw webmail. Both have removed that block, but this demonstrates someone has to be vigilant. The article also describes a labour dispute with Bell Canada, where they completely blocked any web information they could find supporting the labour side of that dispute. All the big carriers hate small carrier competition, they will do everything they can to sabotage performance of these small carriers. They want usage based billing, despite the fact they already charge more for faster connections. Internet connections are paid for to be used, so faster connections are supposed to download more content, customers are already paying for it. Charging extra for usage is double billing. But Bell wants to charge a premium for Netflix, or any competitor for their paid content service. Reducing performance or charging extra for competitors is anti-competitive business practice. All the major carriers are engaging in them. We need to be vigilant, and we need clear laws that make that sort of thing illegal.