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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.
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False dilemma. We can do both.
So apparently recording agencies are able to do anything except record good music. They can bribe judges, hire lawyers, buy congress, complain, make commercials and now train dogs. You would think that with all this money they could come up with a working business model other then abusing the legal system.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Yes, because clearly if the police didn't train them for this, they'd be out training dogs for the handicapped. Society obviously works this way. As a species we're incapable of doing two things at once. Troll.
that hop into bed with the RIAA and MPAA, but i dont see china or other countries allowing this anytime soon.
we're also assuming there is readable evidence on the disks which is not, say, encrypted by GPG.
i thought we all used torrents these days anyway?
Good people go to bed earlier.
Every time I hear of copyright infringement being called theft or piracy it just bugs me. If you think it is, you're wrong and the law backs up the "slashdot accepted definition" perfectly. The piracy that is most targetted are illegal copies FOR SALE. These are the same illegal copies that the DVD CSS does not prevent. These are the same illegal copies that never needed the DMCA.
This story illustrates precisely what piracy is when it comes to copyrighted media.
I guess it's time to pack discs in coffee grounds.
And for the pirates....to buy shitloads of blanks and place them all over to throw the sniffing dogs off their trail.
I was going to post this exact thing, but I thought, what the heck? It's so obvious, someone must have beaten me too it. I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to find common sense. And before you ask, no, I'm not new here.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
No, the dog cannot smell the difference between copyright infringement, and regular baked CDs. (Often mistaken with piracy, despite the lack of taking ships with the use of force and the lack of raping.) This looks like they just made a premise to allow them police to search any house which happens to have written to rw cds/dvds, however, the bbc story implies that these dogs are for searching for more mass-production of cd/dvd writing.
Are Irish Labrador good seeing eye dogs?
So breeds aren't very good at the job
...aren't these the guys we _want_ the MPAA/RIAA to go after? These are the commercial infringers who are operating outside of the law for profit. I'll be happy to argue with you guys (i.e. - on your side) all day about personal use not being an infringing act, but this - imho - is exactly what the copyright laws are written for.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Ey, so why are you wasting time on Slashdot when you could be helping the blind or something equally useful?
Also, I hope you're posting from a library computer or something because if you bought your own instead of buying one for a school or something then you're going to hell!
Hmm, is there any difference between pressed media in a just opened shrink-wrapped jewel case, compared to burned media in the same packaging.
I would expect media in a newly open spindle to have a stronger smell than long opened media just because of the way it was packed, and the fact that it hasn't had as much time / surface area for the plastic to out-gas.
Just rub your cd's in cannabis to cover the smell...
The last thing I'd want in my possession is 35,000 DVDs of data would appear to be encrypted to my captors, and being completely unable to prove otherwise.
If the dog doesn't bark nothing happens. If the dog barks and there is something, he gets a reward. If the dog barks and there isn't something, he doesn't get his bastard balls hit repeatedly with a bamboo stick.
You don't have to be John Nash to predict what muttley's going to do.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
just great, instead of training dogs to help guide handicapped people, they use them for useless stuff like this.
Way to go, humanity!
And some people use dogs as just a pet. What a waste! ...There's a lot of dogs in the world. There's enough to go around to be trained for many useful things.
It may be a waste of money... but you gotta admit some of those cars are pretty amazing
Never antropomorphize computers, they do not like that
So now it's a crime to be unusual or even insane (not talking about the homicidal sort)? If I want to make 35,000 copies of something and I haven't distributed it and I own the original should I be charged with a crime. You know pulling that "nobody needs X, Y, or Z" is why tech policy around the globe is ass backwards and keeps us back as a society. This piracy sniffing dog is just an excuse to circumvent competent police work. Say, police pick their target the day prior and then just preps the dog on their little witch hunt to save the children or prevent terrorism. Right...
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I can't get Slashdot to display pages consistently in a single session.
It's definitely a downer.
The geekiest - most FOSS and standards-obsessed site on the web - can't do plain text against a colored background and get it right.
It's only a false dilemma if training dogs takes zero resources. The resources to train this DVD-sniffing dog *could* have been used to train this dog to do something benificial.
Property is theft.
Is anyone else besides me beginning to get the feeling that someone has figured out that if you teach a dog to go to where you direct it, with subtle, barely perceptible signals only noticeable by a dog, and just pretend that the dog did it on their own, that nobody ever questions that?
Is this just another way around a search warrant?
IANAL (obviously!), so can someone that IS please clue us in? Does a DOG need a search warrant, and if not, WHY not? How is evidence that is found by a dog, but not under a search warrant, viewed by courts? Is it admissible?