Anti-Piracy Dog Uncovers Huge Cache of Discs 283
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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Re:And the blind? (Score:3, Insightful)
False dilemma. We can do both.
So.... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:And the blind? (Score:2, Insightful)
Yes, because clearly if the police didn't train them for this, they'd be out training dogs for the handicapped. Society obviously works this way. As a species we're incapable of doing two things at once. Troll.
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Re:So.... (Score:1, Insightful)
If someone is profiting from selling 35,000 copies of something you put together to sell youself, how is it abuse of the legal system to try to stop them?
Re:works in countries (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So.... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So.... (Score:2, Insightful)
THAT is piracy (Score:5, Insightful)
Every time I hear of copyright infringement being called theft or piracy it just bugs me. If you think it is, you're wrong and the law backs up the "slashdot accepted definition" perfectly. The piracy that is most targetted are illegal copies FOR SALE. These are the same illegal copies that the DVD CSS does not prevent. These are the same illegal copies that never needed the DMCA.
This story illustrates precisely what piracy is when it comes to copyrighted media.
time to pack discs in coffee grounds (Score:3, Insightful)
I guess it's time to pack discs in coffee grounds.
And for the pirates....to buy shitloads of blanks and place them all over to throw the sniffing dogs off their trail.
Re:So the dog go off on any dvd-r (Score:4, Insightful)
I was going to post this exact thing, but I thought, what the heck? It's so obvious, someone must have beaten me too it. I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far to find common sense. And before you ask, no, I'm not new here.
Not from the onion? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:And the blind? (Score:3, Insightful)
So breeds aren't very good at the job
Re:Dear Slashdot, (Score:4, Insightful)
Mod me down, but... (Score:5, Insightful)
...aren't these the guys we _want_ the MPAA/RIAA to go after? These are the commercial infringers who are operating outside of the law for profit. I'll be happy to argue with you guys (i.e. - on your side) all day about personal use not being an infringing act, but this - imho - is exactly what the copyright laws are written for.
Re:And the blind? (Score:3, Insightful)
Ey, so why are you wasting time on Slashdot when you could be helping the blind or something equally useful?
Also, I hope you're posting from a library computer or something because if you bought your own instead of buying one for a school or something then you're going to hell!
Re:So.... (Score:2, Insightful)
except record good music
The recording industry wants music that will sell. That does not necessarily mean good music.
Actually good music often sells. The problem is predicting which music is good and marketable. So instead they make poor copies of something else that once sold then try to manufacture a market around it. It's a bad business model if you have the ability to actually create something marketable and unique and you're willing to risk several busts prior to boom. If on the other hand you're trying to make ever move a monetary success and you lack the ability to produce unique works yourself and you're burdened with expensive middlemen who do little to contribute to the quality of the end product it's the model you're stuck with.
Re:Yes, they smell different! Try it! (Score:3, Insightful)
Hmm, is there any difference between pressed media in a just opened shrink-wrapped jewel case, compared to burned media in the same packaging.
I would expect media in a newly open spindle to have a stronger smell than long opened media just because of the way it was packed, and the fact that it hasn't had as much time / surface area for the plastic to out-gas.
Easy solution... (Score:1, Insightful)
Just rub your cd's in cannabis to cover the smell...
Re:35,000 DVDs of garbage (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:So the dog go off on any dvd-r (Score:3, Insightful)
If the dog doesn't bark nothing happens. If the dog barks and there is something, he gets a reward. If the dog barks and there isn't something, he doesn't get his bastard balls hit repeatedly with a bamboo stick.
You don't have to be John Nash to predict what muttley's going to do.
Re:And the blind? (Score:1, Insightful)
just great, instead of training dogs to help guide handicapped people, they use them for useless stuff like this.
Way to go, humanity!
And some people use dogs as just a pet. What a waste! ...There's a lot of dogs in the world. There's enough to go around to be trained for many useful things.
Re:And the blind? (Score:2, Insightful)
It may be a waste of money... but you gotta admit some of those cars are pretty amazing
Re:So the dog go off on any dvd-r (Score:1, Insightful)
So now it's a crime to be unusual or even insane (not talking about the homicidal sort)? If I want to make 35,000 copies of something and I haven't distributed it and I own the original should I be charged with a crime. You know pulling that "nobody needs X, Y, or Z" is why tech policy around the globe is ass backwards and keeps us back as a society. This piracy sniffing dog is just an excuse to circumvent competent police work. Say, police pick their target the day prior and then just preps the dog on their little witch hunt to save the children or prevent terrorism. Right...
The roll of the dice (Score:4, Insightful)
FIX YOUR FUCKIN' CODE
I can't get Slashdot to display pages consistently in a single session.
It's definitely a downer.
The geekiest - most FOSS and standards-obsessed site on the web - can't do plain text against a colored background and get it right.
Re:And the blind? (Score:3, Insightful)
It's only a false dilemma if training dogs takes zero resources. The resources to train this DVD-sniffing dog *could* have been used to train this dog to do something benificial.
Re:So the dog go off on any dvd-r (Score:3, Insightful)
Is anyone else besides me beginning to get the feeling that someone has figured out that if you teach a dog to go to where you direct it, with subtle, barely perceptible signals only noticeable by a dog, and just pretend that the dog did it on their own, that nobody ever questions that?
Is this just another way around a search warrant?
IANAL (obviously!), so can someone that IS please clue us in? Does a DOG need a search warrant, and if not, WHY not? How is evidence that is found by a dog, but not under a search warrant, viewed by courts? Is it admissible?