Never received a C&D myself. Sounds like you need to learn to hide better. If you are going to do shady things keep separate accounts for whitehat type stuff and blackhat. Few rules to follow:
1. Setup paypal accounts using prepaid credit cards bought with cash for hosting and domains.
2. Use some kind of free mail for contact addresses then forward that to your real mail, hopefully a free mail too, so you still get everything in one place.
3. Get a disposable phone for a real phone number should they need phone verification.
4. Use whois protection and don't put real info in the whois for a domain. But make it look real by using a real persons info out of the phone book or something similar so the registrar doesn't give you a hard time. Make sure you put the other info from the start as domain tools has domain histories and they might come knocking if they see you've changed it to someone that says it's not theirs.
5. If you want to be extra safe use proxies to signup for the paypal and other accounts.
This may seem paranoid however I've heard of people that used a web designer to make a site and they said the images were legit and they weren't and someone came after them. Defending yourself is a pain in the ass. A little money spent up front is worth a lot of time and effort defending yourself on the backend.
1. Setup paypal accounts using prepaid credit cards bought with cash for hosting and domains.
2. Use some kind of free mail for contact addresses then forward that to your real mail, hopefully a free mail too, so you still get everything in one place.
3. Get a disposable phone for a real phone number should they need phone verification.
4. Use whois protection and don't put real info in the whois for a domain. But make it look real by using a real persons info out of the phone book or something similar so the registrar doesn't give you a hard time. Make sure you put the other info from the start as domain tools has domain histories and they might come knocking if they see you've changed it to someone that says it's not theirs.
5. If you want to be extra safe use proxies to signup for the paypal and other accounts.
This may seem paranoid however I've heard of people that used a web designer to make a site and they said the images were legit and they weren't and someone came after them. Defending yourself is a pain in the ass. A little money spent up front is worth a lot of time and effort defending yourself on the backend.
