I agree with you up to a point, but there are a lot of us out there with only 56k modem connections (mine's more like 28k most of the time) and if we're downloading we need all the bandwidth we can get unless we want to leave unfinished DLs for our grandchildren.

To compensate,when I'm not DLing, I often leave Limewire with unlimited upload bandwidth so people can experience the thrilling adrenaline rush of downloading from me at a full 3k per second.