nah, also wouldnt matter for me.
my whole ip changes upon reconnecting to the internet.
the reason here for me is about playing games where certain countrys are banned (for whatever reason...).
If there's a way of getting a US IP that works without downloading some dodgey program I'd like to watch South Park, which England is banned from because of exsisting contracts.
it should be possible to route all your traffic through a proxy or ssh tunnel or whatever... im sure theres a tool somewhere alternatively you could write your own routing tables
That's a usual way to sort out licencing problems in mmorpgs. If publisher a bought a licence for the north american market, and some time later publisher b buys a licence for the european market, publisher a will ban all countries publisher b bought the licence for. Not very nice to people who actually played the other version before.