Slow download speed? Torrent interdiction

[invalidid87]

I'm downloading a torrent and it's going very slowly ie between 1.5kB/s and 5 kB/s. I notice that when I click on the peers tab that I have a lot of peer connections where the percentage is 0.5% and doesn't change but they are downloading (at faster speeds than I can manage) a fair bit from me. The IP addresses are all very similar ie 72.172.xx.xxx and to narrow down further the IP addresses then go 72.172.89.xxx (about 5 of those), then 72.172.90 (again another 5) and 72.172.91.xxx and so on

My friend said me that the slow interdiction is because of torrent interdiction.

Can someone explain what's torrent interdiction and whether there is anything I can do about it?