It's sounds like a cool idea, however I think if it took off ISPs would rush to change their terms of service to block you. Thing is why not just use an IaaS t

It's sounds like a cool idea, however I think if it took off ISPs would rush to change their terms of service to block you. Thing is why not just use an IaaS to do the same thing? Since you're borrowing someone's connection, I'm imagining you want to be able to ssh into an OS on their network, download, process and then upload some files. Have a look at the cost of ec2 instances here: http://www.ec2instances.info/ http://www.ec2instances.info/ The ones with high network speed aren't all that expensive to use for an hour or two. That's not to say there isn't a demand around a service that packages it up nicely.