Don't worry, most of the fast exit nodes are for sure owned by the intelligence services.
(at least, they know what's being discussed, even if they don't have the origin)

As for fast exit nodes, one can get some boxes for cheap from OVH all around the world (they are opening in Canada soon) for example : http://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/
(low end dedicated boxes in France start at about 40 USD for 100Mb/s)

They should think about apple's future headquarter, which will have its solar plant to save a lot on power usage.
With a such big power need - they could build their own power facility (be it renewable or not).

They actually sell the cart virgin without this modified code dumped from a valid rom.
You take your responsibilities by putting the code in there - they shouldn't be liable for this (unless a store do this for you, in that case they'll be in troubles)

They can't hold homebrews though without this afaik, but don't tell me this is the initial goal of such carts (it's a nice excuse to sell them though)

/me waits for a DCMA takedown notice to fly from Redmond to Slashdot's headquarter :D

Is this worse than US borders seizures ?

US border patrols can confiscate your electronic devices (computer, ipod, etc ...) according to their judgement, with or without reason.
They can hold it as long as they need (great if you are a business traveler, I suppose they can get intelligence on some businesses that way) and should give it back to you if nothing is found (sorta) - someday ...

Jesus, you just fired Echelon with all those words !!!
Hopefully you didn't used Semtex or Javelin ... :D