Not so much a comment as an observation. I too am thinking about the transposition of the idea of a neighbour principle into the realm of intermediaries like 2nd generation Napsters [The metaphor of the good samaritan and the rabbi in a hurry come to mind - but I will leave this for another day] Manuel Castells work in Chapter 2, Internet Galaxy – might be extended to include the legal tier to his version of the layer principle:
(i) the techno-meritocratic culture; (ii) the hacker culture; (iii) the virtual communitarian culture; (iv) and the entrepreneurial culture.
We can of course add the legal culture to this but it is interesting to see how ideas about (iii) for example can be seen in reliance on this stakeholding ideal in the Verizon case.

Your thoughts?