Irish crime-fighting dog in international piracy bust

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KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday.

The black Labrador helped enforcement officials who carried out raids last week in southern Johor state which neighbours Singapore, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said in a statement.

Paddy was given to Malaysia by the MPA to help close down piracy syndicates who churn out vast quantities of illegal DVDs. The dog is specially trained to detect chemicals in the discs.

"Paddy led enforcement officers on a successful weekend operation to shut down the supply lines of pirated movie DVDs in the Malaysian state of Johor," the MPA said in a statement.

"Post-raid investigations revealed that two of the targets were actively involved in exporting pirated DVDs to Singapore," it added.
The raids carried out by officials from the MPA and Malaysia's trade and consumer affairs ministry shut down six warehouses storing pirated products, it said.


The MPA said just-released titles such as "Terminator Salvation", "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian", "Angels and Demons" and "Star Trek" were among the movies seized.

"This is a clear signal to the pirates that we will not waver in our efforts to shut them down," said Mohamad Roslan Mahayudin, director-general of enforcement with the Malaysian ministry.

"We are glad to hear that Paddy?s skills are being put to good use against the large, organised network of pirates involved in exporting illegal pirated DVDs to Singapore," said Mike Ellis, the MPA's Asia-Pacific managing director.


The MPA said its member companies lost 6.1 billion dollars to worldwide piracy in 2005. Of that lost revenue, about 1.2 billion dollars came from piracy in the Asian region.

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I'm happy and sad at the same time

BlueSpiral

Don't they have their own dvd dogs in Malaysia?

We should of just traded for the Malaysian prime minister and fashion houses around the world would be saved.

Donny5

BlueSpiral wrote: »

Don't they have their own dvd dogs in Malaysia?

We should of just traded for the Malaysian prime minister and fashion houses around the world would be saved.

Just be thankful dogs can't smell downloads.

dunnomede?

never mind

Sharpshooter

dunnomede? wrote: »

Where does it say the dog is Irish. Surely you're not assuming just because the dogs name is Paddy that the dog is Irish?

Because, it says Irish Labrador Paddy.
Or didn't you click *Source.

Jip

When I was in Malaysia over 2 years ago the Irish dogs had just arrived and they featured lots in the news and media over there. There were articles and news stories all over the place about them, where they came from and how they were trained. Good to hear they're living up to their reputation and afaik they were making raids straight from the off.

Seriously, they have a great reputation over there and there's fairly big bounties on their heads. As I said, that was over 2 years ago, I imagine any bounties are much bigger now that they're much more successful.

Tchaikovsky

Jip wrote: »

there's fairly big bounties on their heads. As I said, that was over 2 years ago, I imagine any bounties are much bigger now that they're much more successful.

Mmmmmm.... bounties.

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It's cool imo, Irish dogs ftw

I don't care for piracy.. downloading shizz is fine but don't label yourselfs ffs... it's like kicking the revolution into reverse