Upload
Upload is a show on Amazon Prime that proposes Big Tech companies are promoting a future of negative outcome, by portraying the world that Big Tech promised as a cyberpunk dystopia with modern (2010s, not 1980s) corporate theming. A world where uploading is expensive purely because most people would pay any price they could afford to live forever, where dating apps don't even hide that they are for one night stands, where all food is printed and life in a virtual afterlife literally holds your existence hostage while stopping just short of killing a potential customer (legally-speaking) by giving your BRAIN 2 gigabytes of CPU usage per month.
The show should be infamous, despite being a good show, for one reason: Unlike Silicon Valley, which showed that Google and Apple exist in the show's world without involving them, the reason Google and Apple exist in the story of Upload includes being co-opted to the plans of the fictional Choak Industries...
But where is Amazon?! Huh, that's weird, "Horizen" sounds suspiciously similar to "Amazon" (who originally released Upload on Amazon Prime Video), but also sounds suspiciously like the Meta Horizon VR world... Screw you, Bezos. (Not that Zuckerberg is any less of an asshole either.)
Uploads in Upload
Turns out you're legally property of whoever is set out in your will to own your upload. If you didn't have one because you were under 18 when you died, technically your parents own you.
Despite this, the rich even manage to get past this, regularly doing shit that normal uploads can't do, like illegally work in an executive function of a company they have strong connections to (e.g. "former" ownership of a company).
Uploads in Glitch Techs x RP
It's an inefficient, if working, method of immortality, but doing so traps you in a computer system. Currently, in 2028, the world's computers use a type of RAM storage that are not able to actually process that data in real time, making uploads experience a maximum capacity of 2 Gigabloxels per month.
The Horizen Prime method is also reliant on last-minute decisions, with injured persons still alive having to make the decision in extreme pain and with little regulatory oversight. The machine for doing an Upload is expensive and essentially vaporizes the person's head while converting their mind.
Despite its poor level of success that hasn't improved over time, this method was the first to market by at least two years.
Other methods include Omni Consumer Products' Neuromantic Grafting, Arasaka's upcoming "Relic", and Hinobi's "PLixelf" avatars (stable glitches whose mind is that of a human converted into PLixels).
Neuromantic Grafting is the gradual process of converting a functioning human mind into PLixel Tech neural networks, creating the first functional zoenets.
Arasaka's "Relic" uses traditional storage combined with Pied Piper's compression and cellular internet to automatically transfer your "ghost" to the Hiverse at the next available opportunity, and if no network connection is found, the data is read-only until the Relic is able to connect and "empty" itself. Given that a Relic is useless damaged, that it can be reused a few times if the mind on board is allowed the prescribed transition, and that a functioning Relic is worth a lot of money and reusable, those attempting to steal a relic will likely find it more profitable and less risky to spare its stored "ghost" in the process of obtaining the Relic without resorting to - and being guilty of - murder.
Hinobi's "PLixelfs" are a consumer-release version of a retired Technician XP Reward, the "Avatar" skill. They use PLixels to create a Glitch-Altered Mesomechanical Entity consisting of a white hole. The white hole, being an entity of reverse gravitational singularity and pure order, is always surrounded by a black outline of pixel-like Cel-Shading; the event horizon of the white hole, which cannot be breached without FTL propulsion.