More seriously, although thinning can sometimes help to limit a fire by removing some of the fuel the fire wants, it is not a process that is neat, cheap or necessarily effective.
Cohen and his firm, who have not been charged or accused of any wrongdoing and contend they have always acted appropriately, are trying to limit the damage from the legal fire that is blazing around them.
Specifically referring to the Comcast 250GB limit that has recently come under fire from Netflix and others now that its Xfinity TV app on Xbox 360 skirts the cap entirely, Aragon noted cable companies have the pipe and the bandwidth and can restrict competing services.