MPAA is dogged about piracy
The Motion Picture Assn. of America’s fight against movie piracy has gone to the dogs.
The organization told Agence France-Presse that British customs authorities have trained two Labrador retrievers to sniff out counterfeit DVDs. They are working at the Federal Express operation at Stansted Airport, near London.
The dogs were trained over eight months to identify DVDs that may be in boxes, envelopes or other packaging, Agence France-Presse reported. “The results were amazing,” said Raymond Leinster, director general of the Federation Against Copyright Theft, which has joined with FedEx and British customs to fight movie piracy.
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