said by Logan 5 
:It happened a while back with Seti@home....Certain people outside of the US with large amounts of machines at their disposal were "selling time" by charging a fee for those machines to crunch for people, giving them a HUGE production boost and a rapid rise in the ranks.
Thankfully UC Berkeley (the creators of the S@H project) stepped in and quickly put a stop to that.
I don't get it. So long as the work gets done, what does it matter whether the computers are owned or rented? If stats are only counted for owned machines, then that really does benefit the wealthy, as you have to own a lot of machines and be able to afford to run them all.
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