"if they don't pay, your upload goes public"

June 17, 2006 12:13 PM

extortr: online blackmail for the masses.
posted by reklaw (16 comments total)

this is the single most valuable service ever devised.
posted by jimmy at 12:19 PM on June 17, 2006

Wow, some immoral person could make a fortune by turning that into a real site.
posted by jbrjake at 12:33 PM on June 17, 2006

All the best ideas are illegal ones.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 12:33 PM on June 17, 2006

Reminds me a lot of the "Blackmail" Monty Python sketch.
posted by bobo123 at 12:36 PM on June 17, 2006

This is brilliant.
posted by Faint of Butt at 12:49 PM on June 17, 2006

metafilter: This isn't actually a genuine web site. It's just a joke

/funny
posted by Smedleyman at 12:57 PM on June 17, 2006

not enough AJAX.
posted by blue_beetle at 1:04 PM on June 17, 2006

What's going on?
First of all, congratulations! You're being blackmailed using the most technologically advanced extortion service in the world,

This site should be real, if for no other reason than the greatness that that is this statement.
posted by quin at 1:05 PM on June 17, 2006

Of course, entrusting your blackmail information to an independent site risks inducing reverse blackmail, where the site threatens to reveal your personal information (payment info?) for a sum to the victim.
posted by sindark at 1:51 PM on June 17, 2006

Meh. Call me when they go Gamma.
posted by avoision at 1:55 PM on June 17, 2006

Like the website creators' other fun as well.
posted by nickyskye at 2:36 PM on June 17, 2006

oops, creator's
posted by nickyskye at 2:37 PM on June 17, 2006

the only bad thing about this is that it is not real.
posted by criticalbill at 3:15 PM on June 17, 2006

sindark: That is brilliant.
posted by graventy at 4:02 PM on June 17, 2006

"Blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion - the X makes it sound cool."
posted by porpoise at 8:12 PM on June 17, 2006

I laughed, I cringed, I laughed, I genuflected, I laughed.
posted by chicobangs at 8:15 AM on June 18, 2006