How do feel about programs that do this?
"MILLIONS of internet users who have downloaded the popular Napster-style network KaZaA for swapping music and movies are about to find themselves part of a worldwide system that uses their computers to work for big business.
KaZaA's file-sharing technology has been secretly packaged with a software component - presently dormant - that can plug member PCs into another network, Altnet.
And Altnet will offer that network to companies as computing power and storage space, potentially using millions of PCs worldwide.
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Altnet will be activated in four to six weeks, linking member computers and using their hard drives to store files and their unused computing power for commercial supercomputing."
From
http://news.com.au/common/story_page...E15306,00.html
(but the link will only be valid for a few days from 5 April 2002)
When did we stop owning our computers?
Whats next?
Could they get my car to go out and become a part-time taxi?
These type of things should be OPT_IN not OPT_OUT.