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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.
Now the blind won't have to worry so much about being sold pirated copies of their favorite movi... oh... nevermind.
I plan to coat all of my real DVD's in steak, that should distract 'em!
instead of training dogs to help guide handicapped people
They are; the heads of organisations like the MPA clearly have learning difficulties.
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Who knew that the evil bit had a smell?
If you have something that you dont want anyone to know, maybe you shouldnt be doing it in the first place -Eric Schmidt
On the rare occasion that a pirated DVD winds up in my house, the smell is very distinctive pretty quickly.
Mainly because it spins once as fast as it can be ripped and then stinks of burned plastic when it comes out of the microwave.
That dog would have no problem finding my house.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
Just keep the dog away from my "backups".
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Has probably something to do with detecting watermarks.... At least they're fond to set new "watermarks" everywhere.
Yours, Martin
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How about just data only disks with no movies on them?
Well, the title says "Anti-Piracy Dog" so it must have a means of smelling the contents of the disk. Given most movies lately, I don't envy it.
If they train a dog to sniff out Bittorrent packets, I'll be truly impressed.
Some of the movies made recently reek so bad I would worry about them permanently damaging the poor dogs nose.
If everyone stops buying and producing pirated DVDs, the dogs will no longer be useful and MPA will kill them to save on dog food.
25,000 copies of BOLT.
7,500 copies of Lady and the Tramp
2,500 copies of Reservoir Dogs
I think the MPA is just barking up the wrong tree here
Success! We've trained this dog to sniff out bombs and counterfeit DVDs. Unfortunatly, all he can do now is detect fake copies of Uwe Boll films...
They are trained to smell Sharpie pen ink. So don't label your DVD rips!
"But this one goes to 11!"
All you need is a black Sharpie marker and it throws the dogs off.
It's the parrot crap they smell. It has nothing to do with the actual disks. They just don't want the pirates to know, so that they won't de-parrot the disks.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
They're just local cache for TPB!
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
That's funny, because my dog's trained to sniff out bullshit. She's getting really yappy right about now, too.
That sounds like a name of a mascot/fake_superhero the MPAA uses to explain copyright to children.
Jimmy: "Have you seen the new OMG Ponies movie?"
Jane: "No. Hey, let's download it!"
Jimmy: "Yeah!"
[Whooshing noise]
Jimmy and Jane in unison: "Anti-Piracy Dog!"
Anti-Piracy Dog: "Hi kids. You were about to download a movie. Every time you do that, a pirate throws a puppy into a wood-chipper."
Jimmy: "Is it the cute kind of puppy?"
Jane (nearly in tears): "That's the only kind of puppy there is! Oh no! I don't want cute puppies to die! What are we going to do?"
Jimmy (gravely): "We'll have to buy our movies, and only from authorized resellers."
Anti-Piracy Dog: "That's right, kids. So remember, don't pirate those movies."
Jane and Jimmy in unison, overflowing with cheer: "Thanks, Anti-Piracy Dog!"
Anti-Piracy Dog: "Up, up, and away!"
[Whooshing noise]
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
next to my vast DVD collection.
This sort of "search" crap is beyond stupid. Either search something, or don't, but don't pretend that your "search dog", who in his/her downtime has hobbies that include sniffing and licking his/her own genitalia, is justification for doing so.
Look I get what you're saying and I agree with your point, but that's no reason to hate on some perfectly fine hobbies. They aren't my hobbies, though they would be if I was more flexible. And if the police officer who conducted the search with a legitimate warrant happens to have an auto-fellatio hobby, well, I just don't see how that affects their ability to perform their job! If anything they'd be less uptight...
The enemies of Democracy are
Now all we need to do is to train dogs to sniff data packets on the network and piracy will be gone!!
I don't know what's funnier, your comment or the +4 Informative.
Only on slashdot.
Since when does idiocy get modded interesting?
They dogs are not sniffing out DVD-R discs, they are sniffing out Pirated DVD's... mass produced in nearly the same way as legit DVD's, with the intent of being sold to large numbers of end consumers, either as a cheaper alternative, or because the real thing is not available in that region yet, often because they are new theater releases.
So you can put away the tin foil, your "Pirated", and then burnt to DVD-R copy of The Hannah Montana Movie is safe from the dogs.
And before you ask, no, I'm not new here.
1352. You know he hasn't read the RTFA. You know he hasn't read the summary. The comments. Now you know - from someone who should know - that the true Slashdotter doesn't even know the elders hereabouts! The truly primal geeks.
Success! We've trained this dog to sniff out bombs and counterfeit DVDs. Unfortunatly, all he can do now is detect fake copies of Uwe Boll films...
Uwe Boll films are all bombs, so I don't see where the contradiction lies...
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in related news,
a blind person was killed Tuesday night with two bullet wounds on his head. Watts Witham, 32, was found dead near a suspected pirated CD factory. His guide dog, Serpico, apparently was guiding him for an evening stroll when it sniffed the pirated CD chemicals emanating out of the factory. Unbeknownst to Mr. Witham, Serpico followed the scent and as the pirates found out of Mr. Witham's presence, they murdered him and dumped his body nearby.
This was the second incident after an Anonymous Coward suggested on an internet forum that "we can do both" train dogs as sniffing agents and guide dogs.
Pirating is a bit of an issue in Malaysia. A couple of years ago I took a bus from my wife's home city of Ipoh to the airport in Kuala Lumpur. The bus had a DVD player and they had The War of the Worlds playing. The problem was that the audio track was in Russian and the English subtitles appeared to have been imperfectly translated from the imperfectly translated Audio.
I was certain that we had a problem there when I watched Tom Cruise running from the aliens yelling my elephant has gone to Europe!
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Trust me, seeing the movie that way was a improvement over the original.
It's the parrot crap they smell. It has nothing to do with the actual disks. They just don't want the pirates to know, so that they won't de-parrot the disks.
The discs wont work without the parrot-y bits.