Malaysia anti-piracy by ... dogs

Malaysia has become the first country in the world to use professional dogs to fight . copyright infringement. Two black bitches named Flo and Lucky will finance their operations by sniffing up the carton boxes stored in the cargo yard at the airport, if they find suspicious cargo boxes, they will signal to the coach by The way to "sit down" right in front of that box.

' This is a very convenient method, both in terms of time and cost '. Mr. Shafie Apdal, Minister of domestic trade, commented. This is not groundless, while security personnel spend the whole day checking boxes to see if there are CDs and DVDs, the cranes only need about 10 minutes.

Currently Malaysia is trying to tighten domestic copyright issues, towards the process of negotiating a free trade agreement with the US. Shafie also said Malaysia will test two dogs within a month at border points, in stalls and storage centers to see where they work best, before deciding to set up a Four-legged 'special forces' team.

Business dogs have been used to find pirated optical discs.

He affirmed: ' With the import and use of two Lucky dogs, Flo, Malaysia has become the first country in the world to test the ability to detect optical discs in dog storage rooms and packages. '.

Participating in this trial is not only the efforts of the authorities in Malaysia, but also of the Motion Picture Association, which includes six major studios in Hollywood. It was the Film Association that slipped to $ 17,000 to buy two sons Flo and Lucky, which included "tuition" for eight months of training to detect chemicals used in optical discs.

Mike Ellis said: ' Nobody has ever trained dogs to sniff polycarbonate in optical discs. These dogs were randomly selected in the herd and were trained to sniff out those chemicals . '

Lucky and Flo were dogs by Dave Mayberry, a Northern Ireland man who trained dogs in mine detection and training. Both are 3 years old, have the ability to detect but cannot distinguish between a CD or a DVD, a printed or copied disc, a copyrighted or non-copyrighted disc.

But according to the Motion Picture Association (MPA), they are still very valuable in detecting unauthorized hidden discs in boxes. According to estimates by the Motion Picture Association, last year piracy stole about $ 1.2 billion in revenue in the Asia-Pacific region of its members.

In 2006, Malaysia arrested 25 VCD disc duplication groups that could release up to 87 million copies of unauthorized copies per year.

Do Duong