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Dogs to Sniff Out DVD Piracy in Malaysia

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06 Mar 2008 11 views
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Dogs to Sniff Out DVD Piracy in Malaysia
In response to pressure from the US movie industry which loses 6 billion dollars per year from pirated sales of DVDs, Malaysia has launched a squad of DVD-sniffing dogs to help root out large caches of illegal disks.

In response to pressure from the US movie industry which loses 6 billion dollars per year from pirated sales of DVDs,  Malaysia has launched a squad of DVD-sniffing dogs to help root out large caches of illegal disks. (Associated Press has the story )

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