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Pirate copies sniffed out by dogs
Saturday, 17 March 2007

Black Labradors are in service of Malaysian authorities to fight pirate music and film. Illegally copied material is sniffed out by dogs at Malaysian airports. Flo and Lucky are trained to sniff chemicals optical disks are made of.

The dogs have been trained in Northern Ireland and moved to Kuala Lumpur after one month trial. They can sniff out pirate copies of DVDs and CDs but unfortunately cannot distinguish between legitimate and counterfeit copies. It takes only 10 minutes for the dogs to examine the contents of a box, which would otherwise take hours for the security officials to examine.

This method turned out to be very time and cost-effective.

The trial is a joint action of Motion Picutre Association and the Malaysian government who have spent thousands of US dollars to train the dogs. Having been trained how to sniff out specific chemicals used to produce pirate DVDs dogs can also be used to track down manufacturers and sellers of pirate disks.

 
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