How Comcast became a tollcollecting nukewielding hydra

Comcast wants cash to deliver cached Netflix traffic to its subscribers.

Has the ISP just gone "full evil" on the Internet, or is this all a big misunderstanding? One could argue that Level 3 is actually doing Comcast a favor, and the US' biggest ISP wants to charge it for the privilege.

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/11/how-comcast-became-a-toll-collecting-hydra-with-a-nuke.ars