Sniffing Out A Pirated CD / DVD !

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Amp_Nut
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#1 erstellt: 06. Apr 2007, 04:09

Here is a report I read this morning from :

http://www.avrev.com/news/0407/05.moviepiracy043.shtml

Foreign nations like Malaysia and the Philippines are leading providers of pirated DVDs to the United States. So Malaysian trade officials, in conjunction with the six major Hollywood movie studios, have devised a new method to combat piracy distribution – Lucky & Flo.

Lucky & Flo are two black Labradors that have been trained by trade officials to sniff out pirated DVD movies. I’m no expert on DVD forensics but if I had to guess I would say the dye and plastic used in DVD recordable media smells quite different than mass-produced, legal movie studio DVD media to the canine of olfactory system.

The latest success of Lucky and Flo came this past weekend when a tip led to a local Malaysian police raid. Police were unable able to locate the pirated movies during their raid, so they called in the canines. In no time at all, the canine duo found 150,000 pirated discs, with an estimated street value of $430,000 located in a secret compartment in the shop. This wasn’t the first success for Lucky and Flo. Several months ago they sniffed out $3,000,000 worth of movie and video game discs in Johor, Malaysia.

However, Lucky and Flo’s fame doesn’t come without a price. The underground movie pirates have put a bounty out for the capture and/or destruction of these law-enforcing creatures. Officials are taking the threats seriously and have increased security around the Labradors.

[Beitrag von Amp_Nut am 06. Apr 2007, 04:17 bearbeitet]

Arj
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#2 erstellt: 06. Apr 2007, 04:14

the poor pooches..
Seems like "Poking their Noses in other(s) business" is not really safe for them