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Watch out, pirates! Here come DVD-sniffing canines

post #1 of 23
5/11/06 at 1:59am
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The MPAA has a couple of DVD-sniffing dogs that just completed a trial run on a number of FedEx packages. An unspecified number of various packages containing DVDs were successfully identified by the beasts, not one of which contained anything other than legitimate currency-derived discs.

As someone who buys more than a handful of discs a week, and indeed purchases a strong portion of them through the mail, I'm a bit concerned about this tactic.

This of course also begs the question: Seriously? DVD-sniffing dogs?
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post #2 of 23
5/11/06 at 4:25am
This is a bit strange. I wonder if they also pick up the scent of a CDs or disc-based games.

So much for my "mailing drugs hidden carefully inside DVD cases" scheme. Foiled again! Damn you MPAA!
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post #3 of 23
5/11/06 at 5:13am
Bootleg disks and cases do have a distinct smell to them.

They smell like recycled vomit.
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post #4 of 23
5/11/06 at 9:26am
This may be the dumbest thing I've ever fucking heard. Dogs trained to sniff DVDs? How can they possibly tell the difference between bootlegs and legitimate DVDs, or CDs or video games. Or BLANK discs, for that matter?
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post #5 of 23
5/11/06 at 9:35am
What a phenomenal waste of money. Tax-payers' money that is.
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post #6 of 23
5/11/06 at 6:00pm
I hope they're cute dogs.
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post #7 of 23
5/11/06 at 6:04pm
Maybe airport security personel get really bored, and now they have a way of finding movies to watch?
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post #8 of 23
5/11/06 at 7:42pm
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Originally Posted by Vader
I hope they're cute dogs.
They are, but these are cuter.



We already have cancer-sniffing dogs. Why dvds?
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post #9 of 23
5/11/06 at 7:48pm
Can someone explain to me how the MPAA has the authority to search packages? They're not a government agency.
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post #10 of 23
5/11/06 at 8:22pm
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Upon further inspection, the MPAA is merely promoting the initiative (I'd suspect the "Big 7" are providing most of the funds). It is rather a joint venture between the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), express delivery company FedEx and HM Revenue & Customs.
As far as the authority FACT has, well, they appear to be going through the proper channels:
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The Federation Against Copyright Theft is the UK’s leading trade organisation established to protect and represent the interests of the film and broadcasting industry against copyright and trademark infringements. Established in 1983, FACT works closely with statutory law enforcement agencies to combat the growth of pirate DVDs, film and other forms of broadcast material including the increasing threat from online/internet-based piracy. FACT has been accepted as a prosecution authority and engages in criminal prosecutions in its own right.
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post #11 of 23
5/11/06 at 11:07pm
Wow, probable cause standards must be a lot different in the U.K. for this idea to be even considered. It's one thing to use dogs to detect narcotics or explosives, substances which the average person has no legitimate reason to have in their posession. But unless these dogs can tell the difference between a bootleg DVD and a DVD I burned with boring-ass home videos from my last vacation, there's going to be hell to pay in courts.
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post #12 of 23
5/12/06 at 12:43pm
When corporate entities are invested with law-enforcement authority, it's a fucking bad sign.
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post #13 of 23
5/12/06 at 3:27pm
Dogs are tired, old, and boring.

If they're going to sniff for DVD's, why not use like ferrets, squirrels, and put little badges on them.

Or they can go to an extreme and get a bear to just maul the fuck out of people. Let's see how fast the bootleg business goes down then.
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post #14 of 23
5/28/06 at 11:47pm
Hmm I guess it goes to show if they can identify dvd (maybe from the chemical plastics or whatever) then they can easily find that marjiuana you tried to send your friend in the side of a cd case.
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post #15 of 23
3/23/07 at 11:37am
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OH MY GOD. Updated with even more bizarre information:

DVD pirates put out hits on Lucky and Flo the crime dogs

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If you thought that IP piracy was all fun and games (and cheap movies and software), think again, because the war on counterfeiting just got a lot more dangerous, with Malaysian "syndicate bosses" today announcing a reward for the heads of two real-life McGruff's. You probably remember black labs Lucky and Flo as the Federation Against Copyright Theft's latest weapons in tracking down bogus discs -- they're trained to sit when they smell plastic -- and their careers were apparently going pretty well until they helped bust a $3 million bootleg ring this week only to draw the ire of whomever just lost a major source of shady income. With an undisclosed contract now threatening their very lives, the two canine Columbos have reportedly been moved to a Cheney-like undisclosed location where security has been "beefed up" to ensure their safety as well as future contributions to Team MPAA. Because, as we all know, police dogs do have a tendency to keel over just days shy of retirement, and these hits sure aren't gonna help that much.
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post #16 of 23
3/23/07 at 12:02pm
Hahaha. It's like Smokin' Aces, but with dogs.

This is a really funny thing though. Don't most of us get our dvds in the mail? How many people send bootlegs through the mail? Friggin' morons if they do.
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post #17 of 23
3/25/07 at 3:36am
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Morons with Muscle!

Never mind the fact that the MPAA's involvement in this matter is a sticky legal issue or that it's these TWO false-positive indicating animals that are going to fight the bootleg menace, but pooch triggermen? This is seriously so hilarious to me that I almost thought that April 1st had come early this year.
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post #18 of 23
3/27/07 at 1:57am
This looks like something out of the Weekly World News, except that the photo of the dog is in color.
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post #19 of 23
3/27/07 at 6:31am
Wait....people pirate DVDs thru the mail?

But that costs money.


I...I....I don't get it.
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post #20 of 23
3/27/07 at 11:40am
Damn. My primary supplier of midget porn is based in the UK.
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post #21 of 23
3/27/07 at 7:09pm
Jerk, why can't you buy legit midget porn?
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post #22 of 23
3/28/07 at 12:22am
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Litmus is ruining it for the rest of us.

But, really, "legit midget"? Was that on purpose, Vader?
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post #23 of 23
3/28/07 at 1:19am
Wow...no, no it wasnt.


I'm scared.

But damn if that isn't a good name for a band.
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