Seen a few threads recently which talk about companies taking measures to stop or slow down p2p networking.

For a little while now i have been thinking of this one;

When downloading certain files, even though connected to 10 hosts, i only download at 1kbs or so. This seems especially so, when downloading 'movie' files.

I was wondering maybe companies log on to a p2p network, pretend to have the file (or maybe actually have it) but limit their upload speed making your download slow.

Maybe they do this with a number of machines and they manage to halt or slow down your download to such an extent that you personaly quit the download. Thus ending the spread of a particular file.

As i said it only seems to be certain types of files.

Is it just me being a little paranoid?