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K9 Copyright Enforcement
There's a really interesting news article at Scientific American's website. Apparently dogs can be trained to smell a chemical used in the production of DVDs and CDs, and police are using them to detect illegal copies. Although the same chemical is used in legal production of discs as well as illegal, the dogs are useful in determining the contents of shipping containers. Using sniffer dogs is much more efficient (and cheaper) than traditional searches of sealed cargo containers. Malaysia recently became the first country to use this technique, borrowing two MPAA-owned dogs, Flo and Lucky.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=A6DD1CDF6F9693DCF11C4450FAB0E3F2
Posted by at March 21, 2007 8:46 AM
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