tellhimfred.com

Ah, the old days of the internet. 1999. Remember those days? The heady downloads of viruses, malware and worm programs from Napster v. 1.0? File sharing like there was no tomorrow? Well, back in those days, there was no tomorrow - we all existed in a state of 14-year old invincibility, performing the electronic equivalent of backyard WWF re-enactments. We’d pull off suplexes, back-breakers, body slams and sleeper holds. Nobody was gonna get hurt. Flash forward a couple of years later, and everybody hears the story of that shithead from Umass Amherst who got his neck broken jumping off a ladder onto his friend’s outstretched elbow.

OK, maybe I’m taking this extended metaphor too far. But you get my drift. The days of consequence-free music downloads are long over. Oh sure, we can torrent our asses off and that’s fine, but is that really the log-on-pick-your-song-and-bail process that allofmp3 or the O.G. napster used to offer?

No.

Which is why tellhimfred.com would like to in no way award this week’s Bookie to…

SKREEMR.COM

This depolorable website, which is in no way valid or acceptable, allows you to simply enter a search string of an album title, song name, band name or the like, and then performs a scurrilous backdoor search of webservers to return right-clickable mp3 files of your results.

Users can simply “save link as” (for Firefox users) or “save file as” (for those of you benighted losers still using IE) on the filename…and download these songs for free. Sons of bitches! Bumpuses!!! Seriously. Nobody should, in any way visit this site and make use of it. We condemn anyone who uses it, and if we find you out, we’re reporting you to the DRM Stazi. Believe it.

It’s like that.