Dogs Can Now Sniff For DVDs At The Airport
From BreitBart:Â
SEPANG, Malaysia (AP) – Lucky and Flo, Malaysia’s latest weapons in tackling rampant music and movie piracy, started work at the country’s biggest international airport Tuesday, sniffing out shipments for fake optical discs.
The two black Labradors are on loan for a month from the Motion Picture Association of America, which says its members—including top Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Universal—lost $1.2 billion to Asia-Pacific movie pirates in 2006.
It took around nine months and $17,000 to train the dogs to detect polycarbonates, chemicals used in the disc manufacturing process, he added.
Although the dogs cannot tell the difference between real and pirated discs, they can detect if DVDs are hidden among shipments signed off as a consignment of something else.
Around 5 million discs were seized in Malaysia in over 2,000 raids last year, Shafie said, while 780 people were arrested. He did not say how many have been charged.
Movies exported from Malaysia have surfaced as far away as South Africa and Kenya.
China remains at the top of the MPAA’s movie piracy list, Ellis said.
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