Malaysia has started using its latest weapons in an aim to tacle the high piracy of music and movie content going through the country's biggest international airport. Like how officers often use sniffing dogs for drugs, in this case, they are using two black Labradors on hire from the MPAA, which have gone through nine months of training to sniff for polycarbonates, which are chemicals used in the production of optical discs.
While some may wonder how the dogs can be used if some packages may contain legitimately bought DVDs, such as a spindle of blanks, what they target are packages where the contents are marked as something else, such as to fetch discs hidden in parcels. When the dogs were left to sniff 50 boxes with a cargo complex, in under 10 minutes, the dogs uncovered a box containing pirated content of the TV show Friends. The dogs have been found to be more cost effective and quicker than enforcement officers and Malaysia is evaluating whether to take on its own dogs. Malaysia is one of the 36 counties being watched for serious copyright violations by the US and around 5 million discs were seized in the country last year, with over 2,000 raids.
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