There are companies and other institutions out there which own more than 16 million IP addresses (i.e. a range of X.0.0.0 to X.255.255.255):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IP_address_blocks
I'm sure they'll be happy to sell parts of their ranges if IP addresses become expensive enough...
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