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Street artists have opened a can of humbug in recent days, howling their displeasure with the Sony PSP graffiti campaign by TBWA\Chiat\Day. How dare Sony try to pass off these spray-painted images as actual graffiti? Damn them for fooling us at first by renting walls where ads don’t normally go. Can’t they keep their corporate noses out of it? Sony’s such a fraud. And so on. Some say this clash represents a watershed moment in graffiti culture vs.

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