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Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs

Posted by samzenpus on from the follow-your-nose dept.

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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  1. Help! Help! My iPhone 3G is stuck in my butt! by robmaldasgaylover · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can someone from Slashdot be kind enough to help me extricate my iPhone 3G from the inside of my anus? Rob Malda shoved it up there and I can't get it to come back out.

  2. sounds like by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 0, Troll

    a very clever solution.

  3. Re:So.... by Teckla · · Score: -1, Troll

    So apparently recording agencies are able to do anything except record good music.

    In your opinion...

    They can bribe judges,

    [Citation needed]

    hire lawyers,

    Anyone can hire lawyers.

    buy congress,

    You must be new here (to the United States).

    complain,

    Anyone can complain. You're doing it now!

    make commercials

    Uh...OK...

    and now train dogs.

    Yeah, so? It worked, didn't it?

    You would think that with all this money they could come up with a working business model other then abusing the legal system.

    How did you go from "trained dog" to "legal system abused"?

    With how much ranting about music goes on around here, you would think they were taking away your food or something else that's actually important instead...

    Get a grip. Don't buy their product if you don't want it (or don't like the strings attached). Simple as that.

  4. Re:So the dog go off on any dvd-r by mgabrys_sf · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, is this still "troll tuesday" (whatever the fuck that means to your tiny assclown nerd brain) or are you still trying to get the last word in like a person who hasn't seen a woman naked?

    I'm guessing the latter of the two - but please - prove me right.

  5. akram's razor by fulldecent · · Score: 0, Troll

    "...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"

    Q: How do you teach a dog to detect pirated DVD's in Malaysia?
    A: Teach dog to bark continuously. Take dog to Malaysia.

    --

    -- I was raised on the command line, bitch