History Main / MurderDotCom

* Season 4 of ''[[TwentyFour 24]]'' starts with terrorists advertising they will kill a senator they kidnapped, [[spoiler:as a XanatosGambit to overload the Internet with viewers which would cause the safety systems at nuclear power plants to crash.]]

[[IThoughtItMeant Nothing to do with]] trying to kill anyone from ''ThirtyRock''.

** [[IdiotBall So naturally the FBI gave out the web address at a press conference.]] As well as the fact that, in the police headquarters, every single computer is also logged on to the site. Would it have killed them to confine it to a single screen?
*** ...[[IncrediblyLamePun heh.]]

** fake viral marketing? D: so its real D:

* Domus Mortem (supposedly viral marketing but most DEFINITELY fake), featuring a poll that was open for a month for people to decide whether a cat should live or not. The "live" footage was prerecorded footage on a loop and despite the overwhelming majority of votes in favor of saving the cat, the votes to the contrary were artificially inflated and they "killed" the cat anyways. [[ItGotWorse And then the stream showed a woman tied up the chair...]]

* ''{{Tracker}}'' had an episode that involved a kidnapped girl in a tank of water that was slowly filling up. Possibly a subversion in that the kidnap turned out to be a setup by the girl to get money from her father.

* ''Tracker'' had an episode that involved a kidnapped girl in a tank of water that was slowly filling up. Possibly a subversion in that the kidnap turned out to be a setup by the girl to get money from her father.

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* ''{{Achewood}}'' had resident murderous psychopath Nice Pete take the concept one further by having the murder be tied to an automatic device controlled by web poll.

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[[IThoughtItMeant Nothing to do with]] trying to kill anyone from ''{{30 Rock}}''.

Nothing to do with anyone from 30Rock.

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* For a while it seemed that every second (young)adult horror in the library was one of these.

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*** Well, [[SplitPersonality murderer]]. And it wasn't so much that he was aggravated as, rather, [[EvenEvilHasStandards horrified]], and actually terrified because he wanted the murders to ''stop'', and knew they wouldn't because the "audience" was CompletelyMissingThePoint.

* ''{{NCIS}}'' "Murder 2.0". Video footage of the victims is uploaded to a thinly-veiled FictionalCounterpart of [=YouTube=], intercut music-video style with other clips which provide clues for the team to follow.

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** ''{{Millennium}}'' "The Mikado" came about a year before the "Homicide" episode. They may be sibling TropeMakers.

* The forgettable movie ''Feardotcom.com'' tied it into a terrible ghost story.
* The movie ''{{Untraceable}}'', including "the more people watch it, the faster people die" element.
** So naturally the FBI gave out the web address at a press conference.
** As well as the fact that, in the police headquarters, every single computer is also logged on to the site. Would it have killed them to confine it to a single screen?

* The slightly more memorable movie ''{{My Little Eye}}'', although here the subjects aren't kidnapped; they've been told they're on a reality internet show about living in isolation. In reality, they're in [[SnuffFilm snuff]].

* Let's not forget the {{anvilicious}} Sick Room in ''{{Cradle of Fear}}'', where the site's visitors can determine how victims die, for a fee, but are at risk of becoming victims themselves if they don't pay up...

** Played with in that most of the viewers of these videos don't realise that they depict real murders; they take them to be some sort of viral marketing campaign, which aggravates the murderers, who intended the videos to strike fear into the hearts of "sinners".

* An episode of season 8 of ''{{Spooks}}'' had a group of eco-terrorists kidnap a load of high-powered buisness man and host a live trail on the internet whether the businesses were unethical. If the internet votes them guilty they were executed live on the internet.

* The forgettable movie ''Feardotcom.com'' tied it into a ripoff of ''TheRing''.

* A ''JudgeDredd'' story set during the "Democracy" arc had a perp kidnap a neighbour and broadcast himself to all of Mega-City One, inviting the viewers to phone in an decide which of two increasingly painful and gory torture methods should be applied, culminating in the viewers choosing how the guy should die. There was always the option to vote to free him, but [[CrapsackWorld naturally]], [[HumansAreBastards nobody ever chose that option]].

** [[WallBanger So naturally the FBI gave out the web address at a press conference.]]
** [[WallBanger As well as the fact that, in the police headquarters, every single computer is also logged on to the site.]] Would it have killed them to confine it to a single screen?

* "Man vs Beast" by Robert Muchamore. An extremist animal rights group intends to kill a TV chef by making him drink a very dangerous cleaning liquid and then broadcasting that over the Internet for everyone to watch.
* In TheSubjectSteve, there is a variant of this near the end. It is described as "a revolutionary media space that binds together the most innovative aspects of gaming, spectacle, democracy and commerce."

* The forgettable movie ''{{Feardotcom}}'' tied it into a ripoff of ''TheRing''.

* In ''{{Kick-Ass}}'', Frank D'Amico plans to stream the execution of [[spoiler: Kick-Ass and Big Daddy]] live on the internet.