America's favorite entrapment show, To Catch a Predator is feeling a little entrapped itself.

Faced with a multi-million dollar lawsuit and declining ad sales, Dateline has been cutting back on meting out justice by public humiliation to child predators. There’s only been one sting operation this year, compared with seven last year.

(Think of all the-would-be predators surfing the same internet as our children!)

Even after the suicide of Louis Condradt, the Texas prosecutor who allegedly chatted up minors and then killed himself when camera crews approached his home, Dateline executive producer David Corvo stands by the show, and told the Times today, “We’re really proud of it.”

Advertisers, not so much. The most recent episode aired in July only had six national ad spots. When even pharmaceutical companies are wary, things are really grim.

But even if To Catch a Predators doesn’t last, there’s always To Catch an iJacker. Because the only thing as universally hated as child predators are iPod thieves.