It was not technically cheating, and as you can see from the link "There is really nothing positive which will come from this.". You can't stop it because I can go get a new email for a 2 week trial in 2 minutes.
The only solution at the moment is to perpetuate this and get my own 2 week shade, fire it up on my laptop, and plop it in another country's tower.
Or their could be an idle time host disconnect, but people will just game around that.
Now I see why so many players including myself have left or are leaving. Game play has become so focused on the win that you are causing your adversaries to leave.
Oh and I forgot to add, if the single player pays for his shade and I leave = no net loss for HiTech, so who cares?