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A big porportion of Dutch routers is actually creates a secondary independent network that provides free internet access to users of the same provider, across the country.

Same in Serbia with Serbian BroadBand (SBB) UniFi.

Comcast[0] does this in the US. It's opt out as I understand.

[0]http://www.extremetech.com/computing/184263-comcast-turns-50...

BT in the UK does this. As far as I know pretty much all BT wifi routers are part of a FON network unless you change the configuration.

Because when your home gives free access, sharing the connection (and cost) with your neighbors becomes easier.

Yes, it's possible now already, but now we're all afraid the others may abuse our connection.

Abuse how??