My favorite use of shell corporations in fiction so far is in Accelerando [1] - corporations start out as python scripts:

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singularity-Charles-Stross...

Available for free on the author's website: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

It would be good if one could do something along the lines of

from legal.entities import Company

jamestech = Company(address='2711 Wyoming Road')

jamestech.register()

That would be awesome.

If you consider somebody doing an auto-install of Wordpress on a managed host a hacker.