Interestingly Greg Egan explores this question in the book "Permutation City". In it, the main character downloads himself into a virtual world. When his copied consciousness wakes up, it only takes about 15-30 minutes before it decides it wants out and commits suicide. The plot of the book picks up when the character decides to disable the suicide switch before copying himself down again.
I read an excerpt of it years ago and have been meaning to pick it up ever since. Maybe I'll do that now...
And to anyone complaining about having to dance through proxies to watch Hulu internationally, it's for the same reasons. What benefit does Charmin see from advertising toilet paper to people in the Netherlands?
All that aside, as someone who has a modded XBOX with XBMC and was living abroad,I can say with experience that all these shenanigans are tiring. Like any arms race where it's content producers vs. the internet, the internet will win in the end.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
