> largely because subscribing to a VPN costs money and requires a debit card. there are VPNs that are proxied out of local residential IP because these gateway

> largely because subscribing to a VPN costs money and requires a debit card. there are VPNs that are proxied out of local residential IP because these gateways are running off users' machines; these VPNs are "free" (they make money by making you run their gateway, and then sell your IP to botnets for example). i would want to envision a true p2p vpn network not too dissimilar to bittorrent (but without the spyware/malware).