Police in Malaysia have started using sniffer dogs to track down pirated movies, according to this story from Reuters:
Two female Black Labradors, "Flo" and "Lucky", demonstrated their technique by sniffing through piles of sealed cartons in an air cargo hangar and then signaling their handler about a suspect package by sitting down in front of it.
"It's cost-effective, and in terms of time, it's very effective too," said Domestic Trade Minister Shafie Apdal, adding that the dogs took only 10 minutes to check boxes that security officials would have needed a day to plow through.
Apparently Malaysia's trying to clean up its act to keep on the right side of the US government. But the story comes just a day after the Business Software Alliance trumpeted its latest series of legal actions against software pirates, taking on a number of people who were supplying copied programs over the web.
