MPAA’s Anti-Piracy Dogs

Written by Ernesto on May 11, 2006 

Meet Lucky and Flo, the MPAA’s DVD sniffing dogs. They can’t tell if the DVD’s are illegal (yet), but they do smell if packages contain DVD’s. The two black Labradors are the newest tool in the MPAA’s rather unsuccesful “war on piracy”.

The dogs are part of a FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) project sponsored by the MPAA. Raymond Leinster, Director of FACT said:

“This is the first time dogs have been used anywhere in the world to search for counterfeit DVDs and the results were amazing. With the cooperation and assistance of FedEx and Customs we were able to properly test the dogs in a live situation and prove that they can work in a busy working environment.”

Lucky and Flo

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The MPAA is quite happy with their new “watchdogs”, and says the dogs are a “highly effective” tool.

“The MPAA is delighted with the immediate success of this initiative which has opened up a new and highly effective means of detection for counterfeit discs.”

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6 Responses (Add yours)

1 May 11, 2006 at 23:49 by the_stranger

Hmmm…i think they were thought to smell DRM rights in luggage to know if the DvD are real or not :-)….

2 May 12, 2006 at 12:22 by NeN

LoooooL,
this is like a funny show.

3 May 18, 2006 at 06:18 by Troy

Read about this on Afterdawn.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7543.cfm
Now, I’ve noticed no difference in the smell of my store bought DVD’s & my burned ones, but I am NOT a trained FACT dog.

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5 Oct 07, 2006 at 02:11 by Phil

Better believe it. They’ll be going door to door with search warrants as soon as they can get approval..

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