Riot creating its own 'direct network' for League of Legends traffic

Wow. This is very sad news in a way. Basically Riots tells the ISPs how to do their job.

A whole new category of companies starts paying protection money to the big ISPs.

Latency becomes commodity.

It's only January and my ISP merger prediction for 2015 is almost true => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8823319