Hollywood’s anti-pirate canines
p2p news / p2pnet: Quote of the day, on Hollywood’s dumb (even for Hollywood) DVD Dogs.
The fony Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), FedEx and Britain’s Revenue & Customs, launched what the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) is billing as, “an exciting new initiative to help combat DVD piracy”.
Featured are Flo and Lucky, two black labs vigorously, “trained over an eight month period to identify DVDs that may be located in boxes, envelopes or other packaging, as well as discs concealed amongst other goods which could be sold illegally in the UK”.
From from LandownEyes in slashdot’s ‘I-thought-this-was-a-joke’ department:
“Kinda makes me thing twice about shipping anything through FedEX. Seriously, this is like training drug dogs to find plastic bags.”
Also See:
revolutionary DVD Dogs – DVD dogs on the prowl, May 8, 2006
May 12th, 2006 at 12:07 am
=.=” dumb@$$ mpaa – stupider than Eric Cartman from south park
May 12th, 2006 at 4:39 am
So if i buy a dvd or cd and send it by fedex to someone as a gift, i’m now going to be branded a copyright criminal? I see. Sounds like the dogs should be running the show, they’re obviously the most intelligent ones involved in this farce.
I’m confident that if someone wrote a book about the xxAA’s behavior over the last few years the publishers would insist it be labelled as fiction, because they’d never believe any of it could be true.
May 12th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
Just think that 100 years from now, the mythbusters will be trying to put this myth to the test.
They would probably mark the myth as busted because “nobody could be that stupid, right?”
LOL
May 13th, 2006 at 11:08 pm
Dogs cannot smell DVDs; they can only smell Biological products and chemical reactions.
Thus, MPAA and the US Government is gonna start searching people’s mail and then say “But… the dog said there were pirated DVDs in this mail”
IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!