I agree with most of what you said. When you're downloading proxy/vpn software like this, it's either P2P (and you're sharing your own resources) or it's centra

I agree with most of what you said. When you're downloading proxy/vpn software like this, it's either P2P (and you're sharing your own resources) or it's centralized. They could make this clearer in the blurb to download the software, but they don't hide this fact and in fact make it clear from their FAQs and pricing pages. But the Luminati angle is nothing different. It would make abusing the proxy network easier (from a technical perspective) but it's nothing you couldn't do with Hola alone. Luminati is just API access to Hola along with expensive pricing and a screening interview with sales staff. You could hack your own API out of only Hola if you really wanted. The real story is that last time I checked, all their US exit nodes come from Digital Ocean, which is hardly worth $20/GB (should be more like $5/TB). I guess they don't have a lot of US users.