Re: Dog sniffs illegal DVD's

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:52:55 -0800, "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" said:
> a) I can see the dog being able to sniff out plastics and such, but how does it tell
> which disks are pirated movies?

This one's come up before.  Apparently, there's one production technique
used by the *big* duplicating houses that have to produce a million copies
of Batman, and another different one used by the counterfeiters that have a
press run of 35,000 pirated copies of Batman.  The dogs are trained to
recognize the scent of the small-press-run DVD blanks.

Yes, this *can* false-positive for a legit duplicating house that runs off 20K
copies of some limited-interest DVD like Ubuntu install disks or similar - but
those almost always have attached labels saying "Ubuntu" rather than "Batman".

Certainly a much saner approach than the MPAA/RIAA business model of treating
the customer base like criminals...

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