The largest and probably first seen negative impact will be non cooperative networks messing with packet priority. It's already happening and you can see it on certain packet sensitive games. Blizzard had a huge issue in WoW about a month ago due to this type of bullshit. The ISP's do care about the large bandwidth…

I don't follow skating and generally the article seems to make good points. All that being said a wordy article like this about figure skating posted on deadspin by a freelancer brings my bs propaganda meter to orange alert. If I actually cared I'd spend some time looking at some of the motivations here.