Thanks
Thankfully I am on a Mac and many of those stupid issues that seem to run rampant in the Windows environment just don't apply.
I am getting a bit closer to understanding some of this but still I have my fears of getting busted for merely downloading files of undisclosed types that ate being shared across the international web. I am not selling or making money off any of the items I use LW to download in fact a lot of the stuff is merely archived for future reference or use (except for music of course). But I do see individual people getting busted, for instance, here in the States (as shown on the evening news last week) for downloading/sharing music. Not sure how easy or prevalent it is but she got busted as, according to the broadcast, have many others, for sharing/downloading thousands of music files.

Assuming the quantity of connections and available files has only diminished and not altogether ceased (as was your case with Virgin), can one merely assume there are just fewer people out there sharing certain type files or applications or can one still assume my ISP is controlling my PtoP sharing functions somehow?