Saturday, April 07, 2007

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!

5 comments:

cybrbeast said...

I see these pirating syndicates as only slightly worse than torrent sites who spread it for free (or p0rn ad revenue).

Pretty neat though, that dogs can smell DVDs.

ExpendableAsset said...

Slightly worse? Are you kidding me? Unless you're comparing these syndicates to Pay-2-Leech sites, there's no comparison at all!

cybrbeast said...

They both supply people with free or cheap copyrighted material, the only difference is that one gets a lot of money for it.
I'm saying this with the assumption that the pirate syndicates don't participate in other criminal activities like extortion or violent crime.

annom said...

Nice dogs!

I also don't see a big difference between torrents and the physical market.

Torrents are 100% free, this only supports stealing..

annom said...

Please elaborate expendable!