Hidding your identity and legal issues

[MaxPrank]

I've been a big fan of soundboard prank calls for a while and I thought I'd get into this racket. One question that's been on my mind is what sorts of trouble a prankster can get into even if he doesn't willingly reveal his identity. If calls are persistent, can legal pressure not be brought to bear on Skype, or your ISP or your Telco to reveal your information?
I'm wondering about what Chris the Hacker tried. He certainly had enough determination to go this far, but I didn't hear about him doing so.

And where are the communities hanging out these days anyway? They all seem very dead.

[Amygdala]

It's a sickness, not a crime... Jack posted the 'rules'... 5 years ago... TODAY!   
Here they are; http://www.jackulator.com/smf/index.php?topic=1088.0

If someone really wanted to find you, they couldn't... but of course 'the man' could find you quite easily, but they have better things to do... just don't threaten to blow anything up and you'll be fine.
Obama will instantly label you as a goddamn terrorist and it's off to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba! 

[CallMeBronco]

well the hay day of prank calling may be over but we are not dammit!!!! 


basic rule is: don't keep calling the same place over and over again. Most other pranksters have always done that, but Jackulator never had to. And his calls were still amazing. (the best if you ask me) What we do here is strive to have calls be of more quality and depth rather than using the same gag a million times over on one individual. Don't take that  as an insult or anything, and I'm not dissing any other pranksters. That's just our motto. 

there's a number of soundboards here to try out if your interested and hundreds of calls to listen to of course 

[jackulator]

basically as long as you're not pranking emergency personnel it's legal, as long as you're not threatening people -- this assumes that you're also not harassing them

even though we don't do it, I think it's probably safe to call the same place a few times -- like 3 maybe, before it could be considered harassment. but it's kind of hard to say you were harassing someone if you only called them once -- which is why we do it that way. makes it harder to get good calls, but hey. we're not doing this to drive people insane. just trying to have funny conversations.

[Fudgebody]

...and if they're good enough, we put the whole thing up on the internet