Latest MPAA’s news: dogs sniffing for DVDs
It looks there are some real geeks inside MPAA too. The latest news which was announced today would make me laughing if it had been published on 1st April, but it’s not a fool’s day today so this is absolutely serious. Piracy fighters at the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) have trained a pair of dogs to locate DVDs. As part of a project promoted by MPAA, FACT instigated the training of two black Labradors named Lucky and Flo. After eight months, the two canines were trained to identify DVDs among other items of cargo. Lucky and Flo were put to put to the test at FedEx’s UK hub at Stansted Airport where they were successful in identifying packages and parcels containing DVDs. Customs officers who opened these packages discovered that all were legitimate shipments.
On the other hand, it’s pretty nice but also a bit dangerous for some people, as the level of illegal software is still pretty high . Being catched when transporting some new game for your brother by pair of dogs may be funny, but it will be the reality pretty soon probably. Mary Callahan, director optical disc operations, worldwide anti-piracy at the MPAA, said: “Lucky and Flo’s immediate success in locating DVDs in transit offers us a new and highly effective means of detection for counterfeit discs.” The conclusions may be pretty interesting: prepare for some news about dogs sniffing for DVDs during the next raid at some software company or at the university 
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OMG!! They lost it
They why not always carry around a bought, legit CD to give the dogs something to work with
No probs just have a stash of dog pr0n that will keep them busy.
LOL! MPAA is really losing it! Whats next? EMP pulses which erases illegal content for evil iPOD users? Heh… Is it just me or does MPAA really want to underline it’s own stupidy?
quick! everyone in the dorms go stashing failed burn dvd’s in cavities, cupboards, communal areas, behind skirting boards, anywhere you can push them out of sight!
Then the whole place will stink of dvd’s and the dogs will run round chasing their own tales
Latest MPAA’s news: MPAA’s sniffing for DVDs
Wouldn’t the money they wasted on that BS be better spent on, ooh, i dunno, maybe counter terrorism and homeland defense?
“…they were successful in identifying packages and parcels containing DVDs”
*sniff sniff* “yeah, that’s a single – wait..make that double – layer DVD”
that’s great, but did they mention how many packages the dogs overlooked? was there any sort of control in this experiment? what about CDs? do CDs smell different? plus, there’s two of them…two?? it’s like giving the coast guard two dingies to patrol the ocean. but i’m glad the mpaa found another way to waste their money in such a hopeless cause. with all this piracy, i wouldn’t figure they’d be able to afford shat like this.