[jrockway]

Who knows, what with old broken software installed on old broken routers, but there are transpacific cables, and Asia is directly connected to Europe... so I think there would be no loss of Internet functionality in this case. NYC-LON ping times would be a lot higher, of course, but that's exactly why those cables exist -- to make things faster.

[idlewords]

Those links are not designed to suddenly handle all transatlantic traffic in addition to their regular load of J-pop.