So let me get this straight...you think the "Music industry" is hiring people to sit for hours and download stuff to clog the Gnutella network? Interesting indeed. More slave labor in China, I suppose...

An alternative view:

1) It could well be that the person who *says* they have a T3 actually does not. Increasing the modem speed in the preferences enables more host connections and more hits. Or the person is clueless and thinks T3 sounds cool, so they check that. When you hit a real T3, you know it instantly.

2) Even a T3 is not limitless. If there are many downloaders, your speed will suffer. There are also some types of connections, especially high speed connections to universities in the US it seems, where simultaneous downloads and uploads will slow the connection to 56K speeds. General network congestion will also have an effect. Remember, Morpheus is now a Gnutella client.

If you have all the search results you need, you can disconnect from the net for a while. That will give your downloads a slight speed boost.