Two sniffer dogs deployed in Kuala Lumpur in a new anti-piracy crackdown helped find nearly 1 million illegal DVDs and compact discs. The dogs have been trained to recognise polycarbonates, chemicals used in the disc manufacturing process.

Findlaw reports:

The MPA, which includes Hollywood studios Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, 20th Century Fox and Universal, estimates its members lost US$1.2 billion to movie pirates in the Asia-Pacific region last year.

The dogs cannot distinguish between pirated DVDs and legally produced DVDs, obviously, but they can detect this type of goods when conce  More ...