[PhantomGremlin]

You're not the only cynic on HN. When I read this I immediately thought of the somewhat different "infrastructure management" that occurred when Verizon extorted Netflix a while ago.

That blog post would have been written something like this:

Verizon: Those sure are nice packets you're asking us to deliver to our mutual customers. It'd be a shame if something happened to them at the interface between our networks.

Netflix: Ouch. Ouch. Ouch. Thank you for bending us over and screwing us. Here, take some of our money. Please make the pain stop.