On copyright, even hosting elsewhere doesn't really help. For instance, I once subscribed to a site that was outside of our jurisdiction and without treaties, and our feds raided the owner there. So overreach is always a problem. Just because it is illegal for a government to do something, it doesn't mean they won't. All I can say is it was too bad the guy wasn't thoroughly armed. I mean, if our government has no authority where he was, then they were just trespassers, and maybe he could have defended himself.