[johnrob]

I would think they need to sort out the lingering legal issues. You don't want to get into the area of "I raised money from public investors to run an illegal business". That's a jail time kind of offense. I'm not saying airbnb is illegal, but if the US courts turned on them I imagine it might get scary for the board and execs.

[dsugarman]

they provide enough value to enough people that they would never have something like that happen to them, there would be a public uproar.

if they were doing something wrong in the eyes of the public, that's another case

[mikeg8]

yea, public uproar has been a huge deterrent on regulation in the past...