It's now at the point where you can stand up a datacenter for $100-200k and provide the same cloud API to there as to anywhere else. You can then write off that infrastructure entirely if you get raided. Obviously you don't stick around, you have it set up by contractors who may or may not know you, etc.
As long as your content in a given country is only slightly annoying to the US (which is really the only global power that matters; within regions, there are other countries which are important regional powers though), it won't warrant a $10-100mm effort to shut it down. The US isn't going to invade Somalia for Adobe or Universal, and the Somaliland government doesn't care much for the Transitional Government down in Mogadishu. Paying $100k/yr in local "taxes" would make you the most fifth most profitable industry in the country (after remittances, international aid (small to Somaliland, mainly from Islamic or Diaspora charities), the ~4 cell providers, the airport).
As long as your content in a given country is only slightly annoying to the US (which is really the only global power that matters; within regions, there are other countries which are important regional powers though), it won't warrant a $10-100mm effort to shut it down. The US isn't going to invade Somalia for Adobe or Universal, and the Somaliland government doesn't care much for the Transitional Government down in Mogadishu. Paying $100k/yr in local "taxes" would make you the most fifth most profitable industry in the country (after remittances, international aid (small to Somaliland, mainly from Islamic or Diaspora charities), the ~4 cell providers, the airport).