MPAA Trains Dogs to Sniff Out Pirate DVDs

It's common when you saw dogs sniffing on people to track drugs. But what I tell you there are dogs that can sniff and tells you which is pirated dvds? @_@

The movie industry group has funded the eight-month training of two black Labradors, called Lucky and Flo, who can now sniff out optical discs at customs points and other locations. The MPAA worked with its U.K. counterpart, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT).

While dogs have long been used to detect illicit drugs, the new mission aims to slash away at the profits from movie piracy, which FACT estimates were $519 million in the U.K. last year.

The dogs were trained to detect the smell of chemicals used in the manufacture of optical discs, said Eddy Leviten, head of communications for FACT.

Last week, Lucky and Flo sniffed packages at the FedEx facility at Stansted Airport, near London. The dogs' sense of smell is up to 10,000 times more sensitive than humans and can smell a disc through several layers of wrapping.

Use of the dogs slashes the time needed to isolate suspicious packages, Leviten said.Read more..

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