MPAA: Dogs sniffing for pirated movies
Two black labrador s dogs, Lucky and Flo sit next to the shipment boxes containing pirated optical discs after the “Operation Double Trouble” demonstration at the main air cargo complex in Sepang, Malaysia, Tuesday, March 13, 2007. Music and movie pirates have put out a contract on Lucky and Flo, the two Labradors who helped sniff out nearly 1 million illegal discs within days of joining Malaysia’s anti-piracy effort. The two female Labradors have been trained to detect polycarbonate chemicals used in manufacturing discs. But officials received a tip-off that bootleggers are using chemical sprays to throw Lucky and Flo off the scent.
Ministry authorities last week said the dogs were moved to a safe house after a source informed them that DVD and CD pirates were offering a bounty to anyone who could kill the dogs, which are on loan for at least a month from the Motion Picture Association of America. The dogs, which began sniffing out disc shipments at Malaysia’s main airport on March 13, won acclaim when they traveled south to Johor, helping officials uncover 1 million pirated DVDs, CDs and computer game discs worth $2.8 million in an office complex on March 19. Malaysia is among the world’s main producers and exporters of pirated discs, the U.S. government and the MPAA have said. According to the Malaysian government, 5 million discs were seized in more than 2,000 raids nationwide last year, and 780 people were arrested. Damn, don’t you guys at MPAA have some dog sniffing for my keys? I lose them all the time…
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Are they still using similar dogs in the U.K, I remember reading that Fed Ex used them at Heathrow,
Haha, that is pretty awesome, I thought that it was a joke, and then I kept reading and it wasn’t. I can’t believe they put a hit out on the dogs! Haha
What kind of sad sad fucks put a hit out on dog’s? They really need to off themself’s.
How much was the pay for snuffin’ the dogs? I would’ve bit them to death.
I wonder if you get to assassinate those dogs in next Hitman addon
later they gonna teach the dogs how to sniff torrents
sniff my ass you sons of bitches
you too
put a hit out on dogs? nuts man.
but i’m a malaysian and to be frank, only the filthy rich can afford original discs here. usually me and my buddies share money.
go to jail or kill the dogs…i think kill the dogs…
–”I wonder if you get to assassinate those dogs in next Hitman addon”
I love it!
“In case you’ve been worrying all weekend about the fate of the anti-piracy pooches, Lucky and Flo, the threat on their lives may be decreasing. The bounty offered for their killing may still be on the table, but the DVD bootleggers in Malaysia are reportedly trying out other non-lethal solutions in dealing with their canine enemies. Authorities were given a new tip claiming that the movie pirates are using a chemical spray to throw off the scent of their illegally produced discs. Presumably the spray makes the discs not smell like discs — perhaps instead like something dogs hate, like citrus.”
Yes! Fight COMMERCIAL piracy!
You could throw the dogs off with urine from a bitch in heat. Put that in a spray bottle, spray it in the package next to the ones with the pirated stock in it.
yes you should never sell warez or buy warez it should always be free
I wish the MPAA/RIAA would notice the difference between comercial pirates who are ripping off (mostly) hardworking artists and little Timmy who wants a copy of the new Foo Fighters album but can’t afford it with his allowance.
Are you fucking serious?
The dogs are on loan from RIAA… yes folks, this is where the
money from years of lawsuits and settlements has gone… into
training and/or genetically engineering two CD sniffing dogs.
What in the holy mother of fucks. I’m glad a bunch of people’s
lives were completely ruined for this. I mean I know if I
made assloads of money the way RIAA did, the first thing I would
do is train two dogs to sniff out chemicals used in CDRs.
Where do they come up with these stupid operation names. Operation Double Trouble: Are you fawking kidding me?? Morons!!
just wait till i send 100,000 dvdrs of the passion… THEN we will have trouble
ROFL hikaricore =D
isnt this ironic? hah
“Feel free to post your MPAA: Dogs sniffing for pirated movies torrent, subtitles, samples, free download…”
$2.8 million my ass.
Operation self anal head insertion
What a morans! They could just buy a hard drive and use free tool like TrueCrypt. To deal with that dvd/cd shit.
smh @ friend…
“What a morans! They could just buy a hard drive and use free tool like TrueCrypt. To deal with that dvd/cd shit.”
uh… what do u supposed they rent out the harddrive to customers?
laff
+1 for MPAA! lol
PIrated discs have a profit around the cocaine level, and the jail time is so low in comparison even if you think cocaine makes you more money it makes sense to deal twice as many and raise your risk profile because you only get a few months in jail.
hahah if they make more money than the drugs then they dont traffic drugs any more so it’s a good thing right?
so Piracy do have good cause effect let keep it going hahahah
There will always be a market for drugs as far as I’m concerned.
But this dog story is pretty funny, I would have never thought of this. And I completely understand the hit for the dogs, don’t they eat dogs for dinner in Malaysia?
kill those fucking dogs before they catch a whiff of my hard drive.
what about a blank CD-R/DVD-R?
did they also sniff that too?
so, if someone send a bunch of blank DVD-R, they will be in trouble right?
this is stupid.. bleh :p
..and to Cyder why the heck did they want to eat dog there, if it is Thai or China, I would believe so..
In China, we have the option to eat dogs.
This is one of those times we encourage this option.
We’ll send the bones back to RIAA’s corporate HQ when we’re done. :p
muahaha @ the operation name !!!
Operation Double Trouble !!!
They used to do same in russia, until one day
someone wraped cd’s in acetone cloth , and burned dogs nostrals.
Police bitched for weeks, about it takes 3 years to
trane dogs, and with one accident both dogs were wiped out.
Stop fibbing Brian…you know acetone and acetates evaporate almost immediately. What you’re saying doesn’t make any sense to me at all.
they should have put the hit on the mpaa guys lol