It looks there are some real geeks inside MPAA too. The latest news which was announced today would make me laughing if it had been published on 1st April, but it’s not a fool’s day today so this is absolutely serious. Piracy fighters at the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) have trained a pair of dogs to locate DVDs. As part of a project promoted by MPAA, FACT instigated the training of two black Labradors named Lucky and Flo. After eight months, the two canines were trained to identify DVDs among other items of cargo. Lucky and Flo were put to put to the test at FedEx’s UK hub at Stansted Airport where they were successful in identifying packages and parcels containing DVDs. Customs officers who opened these packages discovered that all were legitimate shipments. On the other hand, it’s pretty nice but also a bit dangerous for some people, as the level of illegal software is still pretty high . Being catched when transporting some new game for your brother by pair of dogs may be funny, but it will be the reality pretty soon probably. Mary Callahan, director optical disc operations, worldwide anti-piracy at the MPAA, said: “Lucky and Flo’s immediate success in locating DVDs in transit offers us a new and highly effective means of detection for counterfeit discs.” The conclusions may be pretty interesting: prepare for some news about dogs sniffing for DVDs during the next raid at some software company or at the university 
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