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BoingBoing's Xeni Jardin, interstellar blogger sent from fifteen minutes in the future to report back on the tech-follies of humans, goes spycam hunting in downtown LA for Wired, finding a few of the $186,000 worth of invisible eyes that the MPAA gifted to the LAPD to crack down on the pirated DVD trade. When the roving cameras identify an illegal transaction taking place, a holographic image of legendary MPAA pirate-hunter Jack Valenti is projected down to the street. The virtual Valenti then attempts to confuse and intimidate the misguided consumer into discontinuing the transaction with a soliloquy comparing the disrespecting of copyrights to one of twelve disturbing scenarios, like "lashing your 12-year old daughter to the buffet in the preteen-rapist ward at a hospital for the criminally insane."

Also: Blogging.la has detailed locations for the spycams, just in case you'd like to move your "entrepreneurial zone" to a less-monitored location.