Arguably it would be much, much harder if you had formal separation. Kim Dotcom had servers in the US - in fact, nearly their entire server fleet if not entire

Arguably it would be much, much harder if you had formal separation. Kim Dotcom had servers in the US - in fact, nearly their entire server fleet if not entirely was in Virginia, vendors in the US, collected payment for illegal downloads and uploads in the US, in USD. Their primary domain was a .com, which is owned by Verisign, a US company. This would likely not be the case if you were running on a ccTLD in your own country, hosted in your own country, at least.