> and could not be held liable because their firm is effectively beyond the reach of the US legal system.

this is a big one. last F500 I was at dropped Tata for several internal support teams due to belief that they were messing with proprietary code and/or had screwed things up so badly they warranted a lawsuit -- but had no legal levers to chase them for damages.

ditto for the one-off programmer who sexually harasses people while remote -- how does a remote worker sue, or get sued, and under what law?

or finance / tax -- who pays the payroll tax?