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A killer kidnaps a victim, imprisons them and then webcasts their murder onto the Internet. Sometimes the victim's fate is linked to number of hits the website receives: either the victim will be killed when a certain number of hits are achieved, or the more hits received, the faster they die.

An example of [[New Media Are Evil]]. Compare [[Snuff Film]].

 

 

* ''[[Zombie Loan]]''

* ''[[Detective Academy Q]]''

* ''[[Wolf Guy Wolfen Crest]]'' includes an absolutely ''sickening'' variant later on. {{spoiler|More of a Gangrape.com though.}}

 

* The first storyline in the 2011 relaunch of ''[[Green Arrow]]'' has Rush stream his gang hunting a captured Green Arrow live onto the internet.

 

* ''Snuff-Movie'' is a 2005 gothic horror film by British director Bernard Rose. It stars Jeroen Krabbe as a horror film maker named Boris Arkadin, whose pregnant wife was brutally murdered by a Manson like gang of hippy psychopaths during the 1960s. Because of this he has become a recluse, until, several years later, he makes a come-back and invites some actors to a large mansion in the English countryside to 'audition' for his new film. But unknown to them they are being filmed by hidden cameras linked to a 'snuff' website.

* In ''[[Virtuosity]]'', Sid 2.0, a serial killer personalty construct originally in a virtual reality system has figured a way to escape into the real world, takes over a TV studio and announces "Death TV" where the viewers get to vote by telephone on which member(s) of the studio audience dies.

 

== Literature ==

* In ''[[The Subject Steve]]'', 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."

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

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' "Revelations"

** Played with in that most of the viewers of these videos don't realize 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".

** Also "P911", though the unsub wasn't necessarily intending to kill the boy.

** And "The Internet Is Forever".

* ''[[Numb3rs]]'' "Killer Chat"

* ''[[CSI]]'' "Grave Danger": Nick Stokes is buried alive and the killer establishes a webcam link between the coffin an CSI. However, whenever the webcam is activated, the ventilation keeping Nick alive turns off.

** ''[[CSI New York]]'' features an aversion - sure, there's a scary serial killer, but his site's password protected, [[Criminal Mind Games|and you have to find out using real life evidence]].

* ''[[The Last Detective]]'' "Dangerous Liaisons" as part of a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] for the murderer's sister being killed in a [[Snuff Film]] years before.

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

* 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 trial on the internet whether the businesses were unethical. If the internet voted them guilty, their execution would be streamed live.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'', [[Meaningful Name|Nicaea]] shows videos of death... BEFORE they happen. {{spoiler|It's so you can prevent it.}}

 

* ''[[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.

 

== Real Life ==

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