{"id":2683,"date":"2007-08-29T08:13:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T16:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/the_mpaa_smells_that_smell.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T16:13:27","slug":"the_mpaa_smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/the_mpaa_smells.html","title":{"rendered":"The MPAA Smells That Smell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs, bombs and <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/DVD_piracy_goes_to_the_dogs\/9834.html\">pirated DVDs<\/a>. It&#8217;s all about priorities:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>DVD piracy costs New York City about $50 million in lost sales taxes each year. Drawing on his background as a federal prosecutor, John Malcolm decided to try a low-tech solution to the high-tech crime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dogs are used to sniff out bodies, bombs and drugs,&#8221; said Malcolm, who&#8217;s now the chief of worldwide anti-piracy operations for the Motion Picture Association of America. &#8220;We just needed to see if they could be trained to smell the unique chemicals in DVDs. Lo and behold, they can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At a demonstration here yesterday, two black Labradors named Lucky and Flo were able to pick out boxes full of DVDs. They made no critical judgments &#8212; for them, all movies stink. They can&#8217;t tell the difference between legitimate or pirated products, DVDs or CDs. But their ability to unearth discs makes the jobs of police and customs officials much easier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d like to get law enforcement interested in using similar dogs,&#8221; explained Malcolm.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drugs, bombs and pirated DVDs. It&#8217;s all about priorities: DVD piracy costs New York City about $50 million in lost sales taxes each year. Drawing on his background as a federal prosecutor, John Malcolm decided to try a low-tech solution to the high-tech crime. &#8220;Dogs are used to sniff out bodies, bombs and drugs,&#8221; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}