Malaysian Criminal Syndicate Places Bounty on Sniffer Dog's Heads.

The MPAA's international branch, the MPA has reported to be using canines in its ongoing war against physical piracy. These two four-legged henchmen, introduced by the MPAA in September 2006, reportedly sniffed out a multi-million dollar operation leading to the arrest of six people and the interception of aproximately one million street-ready pirated CD's and DVD's. Slyck News writes the following (snippet):

"The cold war on piracy seems to be getting just a tad warmer. In general, the copyright wars have generally maintained the status quo of verbal exchanges, civil actions, plant raids, criminal arrests and the occasional conviction. These generally were peaceful affairs, however the physical piracy war was brought up a notch as Malaysia's New Strait Times has reported that criminal syndicates have put a bounty on pirate sniffer dogs Lucky and Flo."

The physical martket for pirated goods is huge, especially in Asia and South-America. Supply is almost exclusively handled by cartel-like criminal organisations and wreaks havoc on the MPA's associates' revenue. I think we all agree that criminal exploitation like this should be fought and fought hard. I wonder how long it'll take until someone puts these K9's out of business!