1. There are a bunch of greedy selfish bastards here 2. Greed can be a powerful motivator so how about this Original proposition: Make it easy to share your n

1. There are a bunch of greedy selfish bastards here 2. Greed can be a powerful motivator so how about this Original proposition: Make it easy to share your network freely and securely because it's the nice thing to do. New proposition: Make it easy for people to monazite their networks. Build APs that come with standard captive portal pages tied to a merchant service. Owner puts in their bank account info, user puts in their CC info, merchant provider takes a cut, and you get paid. Heck if you're the merchant provider you could even set standard rates based on how much bandwidth is 'shared.' I bet, as long as they were the merchant provider, comcast would go for this idea. Get paid twice for the same connection? Sweet! They already give out modems, giving out APs that make them money would be a small step.