Now that Bittorrent is offering legal downloads, in association with 20th Century Fox, Lions Gate, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Inc., what would be Telecom's excuses to filter their packets, apart from the "official" word which is volume?
Granted Bittorrent is offering the service only in the U.S. at the moment - what's the matter with these companies? - but the argument of "if it's a torrent it must be illegal content" is no longer valid for people defending different treatment to the downloads.
Things are getting confusing now with this step. It's arguably the most efficient distribution channel currently in use. Except in the views of ISPs of course, who need to pay for the (oh so dear) bandwidth consumption.