This article seems quite naive. Painting P2P traffic as something "which Comcast cannot block" ignores both history and the reason why Netflix paid for direct

This article seems quite naive. Painting P2P traffic as something "which Comcast cannot block" ignores both history and the reason why Netflix paid for direct peering with Comcast in the first place. It's not that their traffic was being "blocked", just that it was coming in on the same overloaded pipes as other general Internet traffic. While Comcast customers might not notice a web page taking a few milliseconds longer to load, they certainly notice the difference in video streaming quality, and hence why the new peering arrangement made a difference. Shifting all the traffic to P2P most likely would send Netflix traffic back into the overloaded slow lanes again - and if anything makes it all the MORE likely to be further slowed down and deprioritised for reasons. Phrases like "Internet traffic of a type often used for piracy" are all that needs to be said to justify whatever further shaping, blocking, and other indignities could be applied to it.