> But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point Not reall

> But if a company has you down as being in country x, how do they know to apply the laws from country y? This is a practical rather than legal point Not really. If you take Google to court, and Google tells the judge "yo, he was connecting from a Malaysian ISP for like 2 years straight", the judge is probably gonna say "okay, yeah, I can see why you thought he was a resident of Malaysia".