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The MPAA is again out to browbeat its paying customers, and its market research (or the sounds of pirate noises in a theater) apparently has revealed that the "puppet stuntman" is not as "relateable" a propaganda delivery character as a teenage girl. LAist's Paul Davidson stares into the face of the new Manny Perry and sees a gum-smacking, broadband-equipped Hilary Duff fan.

a young girl with a Internet-ready computer in her room (man, kids these days are SO spoiled) is doing her nails, picking her fashion choices for a night out and talking on the phone — all while she downloads a movie off the Internet.

The spot goes on to ask a room of faceless movie-goers who have paid in excess of $10 for an evening at the movies if (a) you'd ever steal a car, (b) or a DVD, (c) or your mother's brand new liver. And since, no, you wouldn't — why would you illegally download a movie on your computer? It is a shoddily made, MTV-wananbe, jerky camera-angled spot that is starting to give people aneurisms around town.

We'd suggest a modified protest involving the improptu karaoke of a Duff song during the ad. But if we stoop to the same kind of despicable tactics used by our enemy, then the MPAA's guilt-terrorists have already won.