I see this blog post conveniently ignores some details. I suppose this probably isn't surprising, pretty sure his consultancy firm is a client of Comcast's and

I see this blog post conveniently ignores some details. I suppose this probably isn't surprising, pretty sure his consultancy firm is a client of Comcast's and that aside, has clear skin in the game on the CDN front. 1) The original intent behind Settlement-free Peering was that networks would share similar amounts of data. This was before the time of readily available and cheap hardware that enabled fast interconnections. This was a time when running a network at scale was horribly difficult and even a little "extra" load would bring things tumbling down. This is no longer even remotely true. Comcast's fabric is capable of many-Tbps of throughput. 2) >> This is where a lot of the confusion starts as many are under the impression that ISPs like Comcast are suppose to allow any transit provider to push an unlimited amount of traffic into their network without any compensation. This isn’t a Comcast specific policy, but rather one that is standard for all ISPs. No sane person is suggesting this. People instead are suggesting what you later allude to as Comcast looking to double dip (I'll get to that). 3) >> As a result, Cogent has to take all the necessary business steps to make sure Cogent has enough capacity to pass Netflix’s traffic on from Cogent’s network to Comcast. But Cogent isn’t doing that. Cogent is refusing to pay the many fold markup that Comcast is demanding for access to its subscribers. Comcast is well aware of its position of power in this. They control access, they're the gatekeeper, and as such know they can charge more than the market rate for transit. Every commercial carrier would balk at being asked to pay $5/Mbps instead of the usual $0.25/Mbps. 3) >> In a little known, but public fact, anyone who is on Comcast and using Apple TV to stream Netflix wasn’t having quality problems. The reason for this is that Netflix is using Level 3 and Limelight to stream their content specifically to the Apple TV device. Level3 doesn't have problems because they too have agreed to pay Comcast protection money. 4) >>Netflix is the one in control of this, not Comcast or any ISP. Neflix is in control insofar as they control their personal uplinks. Even if they were to privately peer with every residential ISP in the US, they wouldn't be in complete control. Netflix would have to own the last mile to be in control.