Sandvine CEO Says Internet Monitoring a Necessity

Khalid Baheyeldin writes in with a CBC interview with the CEO of Sandvine, Dave Caputo (bio here). Sandvine is the Waterloo, Ontario-based company that provides the technology that Comcast and other ISPs use to overrule Net neutrality by, for example, injecting RST packets to disrupt Bittorrent traffic. Caputo says, among other things, that Internet monitoring is a necessity. Some of the comments to the interview are more tech-savvy than the interviewee comes across.

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Maybe I'm being selfish

[Anonymous Coward]

but if it speeds up my Internet connection, then I'm all for it. I really don't need to suffer slow surfing and downloads just because some bandwidth hog wants to download a half dozen DVDs everyday, the legality of which is not my concern as much as the impact on QOS for the rest of us. Want unlimited downloading? PAY FOR IT.

Where is it written that it is all-you-can-eat? It's like going to a buffet, gorging yourself on all the food, and then knocking over the food table like a bull in a china shop. F us? No, F YOU