Re: Dogs trained to sniff out fake DVDs

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, Predrag Ivanovic wrote:

> > From CDFreaks.com[1]
> ----
> The entertaiment industry has a new weapon against movie pirates. Two English dogs
> called Lucky and Flo have become the first dogs that are used to find counterfeit DVD's.
> The dogs have been taught to identify DVDs that might be located in boxes, envelopes
> or other packaging, as well as discs concealed amongst other goods. Their first test was pretty succesful.
>
> For their first major live test, Lucky and Flo were put to work at FedEx's UK hub
> at Stansted Airport in Essex where they immediately identified packages and parcels containing DVDs for destinations 
> in the UK.
> Fact director general Raymond Leinster said: "This is the first time dogs have been used
> anywhere in the world to search for counterfeit DVDs and the results were amazing.
> With the co-operation and assistance of FedEx and Customs we were able to properly
> test the dogs in a live situation and prove that they can work in a busy working environment."
>
> Till now we've already seen dogs that can find explosive and drugs, does this mean that the authorities
> see counterfeit DVDs as the same threat? The costs of training such a dog and the fact that they are now
> not available for finding drugs and explosive makes one wonder... 
> ----

I'll start spraying my pirated DVDs with aniseed.

Actually, this one fails to pass my Bayesian credibility test. For a 
start, if I send a DVD of my holiday home-movies, how will they sniff out 
that this isn't actually a breach of someone else's copyright? I mean, 
I can believe that dogs can smell heroin, but what does copyright-breach 
smell like?

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