Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs

sgt scrub writes "I've never thought about sniffing my CDs before buying them but that is all about to change. According to this Yahoo! news article, dogs can be trained to tell the difference between a legit copy of a DVD and one from those pesky pirates. From the article, 'A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday. Paddy was given to Malaysia by the MPA to help close down piracy syndicates, which churn out vast quantities of illegal DVDs. The dog is specially trained to detect chemicals in the discs.'" We ran a story about anti-piracy dogs being trained in Ireland a few years ago.

Comments

And the blind?

[SalaSSin]

just great, instead of training dogs to help guide handicapped people, they use them for useless stuff like this.

Way to go, humanity!

Re:And the blind?

[jebrew]

And the billions spent on other crap could be used to buy me a private island. There are much bigger fish to whine about. If you want to see a waste of money, check out the auto industry.