[llukas]

So you can take Googles content, intellectual property, or patents and do what you like? France, Germany, Italy or Spain law enforcement wont do anything?

This is one of the key infrastructure that government provides and Google depends.

[microcolonel]

No, their courts are guided by treaty to expose citizens to action on the patents of other countries, just as courts in other countries are guided by those same treaties to expose theirs.

As far as I understand, all treaties of this sort are bilateral.

[pjc50]

But those courts are still infrastructure, no?

[Spivak]

So if you operate a business in any country that has a treaty with France you should get a bill from the French government?

[llukas]

If you offer services in France and accept payments from French citizens then you're pretty much operating in France.

If not someone should figure out how to put a server on a satellite so they could claim no taxes are due as transaction is extraterrestrial.

[microcolonel]

That would be exactly true. If your business's operating legal presence were in space, or on the open ocean, then you would pay no taxes, aside from consumption-side taxes in the countries you serve.

Tell me how this would be anything but fair.