It is a crime to shut down or tamper with your video system. You will be incarcerated and the system will be forcibly reinstalled and/or reset. As promised, these video systems had brought crime down to near zero. Of course, there were people who tried to get around it, and crimes of passion, but robberies, rapes, stabbings, shootings, burglaries, roughing up--everything--had practically disappeared before my first installation scars had healed as a baby. Until people got bored.
So, the reason for the cameras, at first, was crime deterrent. As I said, it worked, but an alternative use for the constant video of every human (and many animals) on the planet came quickly on its heels: entertainment. Everyone in the world had their own show. Advertisers hitched their wagons to the most interesting people and the rest of us figured out how to stream the interesting videos directly through our systems to watch as we lived.
Eventually, "Diabolical X" came on the scene. Diabolical X was a criminal and the most popular show in the world.
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