> If it's illegal to, say, hack into your competitors servers and steal all their intellectual property, you don't get to mail a server to somewhere with weak IP laws, and then do all the theft.
Because you're still a US company which has to comply with US laws... As long as the US government finds you at fault, it can nab you and all your US assets if it pleases. Now, if you emigrate entirely and bring all your employees, assets and family and are okay with never setting foot on US soil again, then you can breach all the US laws you want
It's like committing mail fraud but sending the mail via a PO box in another country, or wire fraud and routing the call abroad. There's no magic pixie dust about the internet in cases like this, it's just another telecoms and delivery service and we've had those for a long time with settled law governing them.