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No. The stolen bandwidth in question is between L3 and Comcast, not between you and Comcast. It's "stolen" because they had a contractual agreement which L3 is breaking, which is perhaps stretching the meaning of "stolen" but is defensible, I think. (Or at least so the story goes, I can't vouch for any element of it.)

This is all sausage making details that go on all the time and shouldn't and probably still won't actually involve you.

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stolen is not a stretch, it's absolutely invalid.

in peering agreements, if your ratios are out of whack and you're pushing an uneven traffic distribution, you get a warning, and if it keeps up, you get depeered.

in a transit agreement, like what comcast and level3 have. there's nothing to steal, you (comcast) pay for the bandwidth that comes across the pipe your get from your provider (level3).

Except, both L3 and Comcast have said that they had a settlement-free peering agreement, in addition to the transit agreement. And that peering agreement is the one that they're having the spat about.

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