Security News > 2021 > March > What could possibly go wrong? Sublet your home broadband to strangers who totally won't commit crimes

The latest passive income trend, we're told by Lithuania-based internet biz IPRoyal, is internet sharing, a term that here means "Subletting" or "Reselling."

Launched in January, IPRoyal pays residential internet users in exchange for "Sharing" their internet service, something many internet service providers like Sonic Internet [PDF] and Comcast prohibit in their terms of service.

Bandwidth renting services provide apps that people install on their devices that act as proxies for other customers to gain access to their internet connection so they can use the IP address of the bandwidth-providing consumer.

He described the arrangement as a consensual compromise of your network, in that you allow your broadband connection to relay other people's potentially questionable activities across the internet.

Toleikis in an email to The Register insisted there's no difference between selling bandwidth and sharing your internet connection with the rest of your family at home.

"None of our clients can go to those websites anymore. We are making sure that all our pawns who decide to share their internet via our application and earn some extra money will be safe, and their traffic will not be used for any illegal activity."

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