FedEx, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT), and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) have successfully trained a pair of dogs to detect DVDs in boxes. Why? Because, as you know, DVD piracy supports terrorists.
The dogs were 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. These DVDs are often smuggled by criminal networks
involved in large scale piracy operations from around the world.For their first major live test, Lucky and Flo were put to work at FedEx's UK hub at Stansted
Airport and were immediately successful in identifying packages and parcels containing DVDs
for destinations in the UK."This is the first time dogs have been used anywhere in the world to search for counterfeit
DVDs and the results were amazing, said Raymond Leinster Director General of FACT. "With
the cooperation and assistance of FedEx and Customs we were able to properly test the dogs
in a real life situation and prove that they can work in a busy airport environment."
