Anybody who's ever opened a new cd spindle will know that smelling new cd/dvds is veeery easy...
The entertaiment industry has a new weapon against movie pirates. Two English dogs called Lucky and Flo have become the first dogs that are used to find counterfeit DVD's. The dogs have been taught to identify DVDs that might be located in boxes, envelopes or other packaging, as well as discs concealed amongst other goods. Their first test was pretty succesful.
For their first major live test, Lucky and Flo were put to work at FedEx's UK hub at Stansted Airport in Essex where they immediately identified packages and parcels containing DVDs for destinations in the UK.
Fact director general Raymond Leinster said: "This is the first time dogs have been used anywhere in the world to search for counterfeit DVDs and the results were amazing.
"With the co-operation and assistance of FedEx and Customs we were able to properly test the dogs in a live situation and prove that they can work in a busy working environment."