I'm more concerned about the Mexican-sniffing dogs.

What, no "Your dog wants..."?

/glad to see it die.

You know what else I'd like to see die? The "not news/news/fark.com" headline variants.

LOL you got to be kidding. Who was the moran who thought this one up? Oh...its the MPAA, never mind.

The dog is working. Do not pet the f'ing dog.

I'm more concerned that the MPAA has the authority to place dogs at airports.

@theghostinthemachine

Please tell me you didn't feed your dog that egg foo young!

Let's see more cute dog pictures!
SCOOOOOOOOOBY DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Good headline submitter... thx for the laugh.

Every time back from China I bring 100-200 DVDs with me (cost is around $1 each, for good quality DVD9). I declare them on my customs form, and have had many customs officers see them. Thank god they care about real things such as large stashes of drugs, suitcases full of money, etc... I have never had a DVD confiscated, even when the agent mentioned that "you know, a lot of these movies you have are still in the theater here."

MPAA for president of the universe!!

Uh, no...wait, what I meant was:

And if I have made backup copies of my own DVDs for my own use? Are they going to prove that's not what I've done? (Of course, it isn't what I've done, but they can go fark themselves all the same.)

Oh yeah, DMCA, of course.

I suck at picture posting

The puppies are gonna be in the UAE. MPAA is hoping that people do buy licensed movies.

What about legal backups of your own DVDs??? Are those okay???

Wait, this is the MPAA??? Even IF you have a store purchased DVD, they're gonna soon want to make sure you have the receipt to prove it is yours at this rate...

*sniff sniff*
These DVDs smell of Grog & the sea, get 'em boys


/that's some nice sniffin' Lou

I took care of my friend's turtles while she went to China for two weeks. I was really excited that she brought me back a Spiderman 2 dvd while it was still in the theaters. The quality was actually really good.

Then I found out it only cost her $1 and I was like, "cheap biatch!!!!"

Mess with the system and carry a legally-obtained proper DVD everywhere you go!

You laugh, but this is only Step One. Step Two is to require all blank DVD media to be impregnated with dog food smell, probably Chuck Wagon.

What the fark kind of madness is this? Will there eventually be a long line of dogs you have to walk along side of that will sniff for every category of things deemed illegal?


"I'm sorry, ma'am. Speckles is indicating that is a knock-off Prada bag."

Mordis: The puppies are gonna be in the UAE. MPAA is hoping that people do buy licensed movies.



/obligatory

uropaul
I'm more concerned that the MPAA has the authority to place dogs at airports.

Worth repeating.

Wonder when Tommy Hilfigger will be sniffing out my luggage to make sure I didn't buy knock offs in Korea.

"Why, yes officer, I have a copy of the latest film, 'The MPAA and DHS suck ass'. It's a documentary."

I'm sure they feel like they should have the right to examine anyone's DVDs at any time and "make sure" that they are all legal...

HotWingConspiracy "I'm sorry, ma'am. Speckles is indicating that is a knock-off Prada bag."

LOL

clevershark: obligatory

So it's sheikh to drop puns now? Better think twice before this thread sinks to the Qatar.

Just don't bow to our new MPAA overlords. It's like dropping soap.

"I'm sorry, ma'am. Speckles is indicating that is a knock-off Prada bag." -- HotWingConspiracy

I LOL'd

submitter: Dogs trained by the MPAA can sniff out pirated DVDs at airports; they also sniff out legal DVDs at airports, which makes the whole thing pretty much useless, but hey, cute doggie

What if I have a burned copy of a DVD I legally own? Can they sniff that out too?

MPAA jackass 1: "Hey! Dogs sniff out drugs, wonder if they can sniff pirated DVD's?"
MAA jackass 2: "I dunno, let's give it a try, and we can probably prosecute a couple "pirates" before they figger out if they can or not."
MPAA jackass 1: "AlllRIGHTy then. I'll just contact my people in the TSA."

/WTF

I want them to train a dog to sniff out crappy movies. Sort of like a "previewing-eye dog" that you bring to the video store that can warn you about movies like "About Schmidt" and "the Village."

A dog can smell if the DRM has been cracked on a disk? Wow, I need to get me one of those dogs.

I yoinked this image from a thread yesterday- a new cliché I believe.

You know, between terrorism and pirated DVDs, I always wondered which was the greater threat to our country. But now the MPAA has made it painstakingly obvious. The real threat to our country...are idiots.

The article doesn't explain that the dogs aren't searching passengers' luggage. They are searching shipping crates. The MPAA (and customs, etc.) didn't do this to catch Bob Smith coming home from Thailand with a few DVD's. They did it to catch the smugglers. So they're not going to be walking around sniffing luggage like the fruit-sniffing dogs in LAX looking out for your smuggled mangos.

I call shenanigans on the whole thing. Sounds made up to me, either unfunny satire or fiction to make the MPAA look even dumber than they are.

These dogs should be doing more productive things, like sniffing out Muslims.

Please stop making me sniff harmful chemicals

t3knomanser
The Contact Music tag is widely known as a "Don't bother clicking this link, the headline has covered everything" tag.

Seriously, they tried to link the stories to a "Dog" search within their site.

The obvious solution to the problem that dogs can't tell legal from pirated DVDs would be to make private impoarting of all DVD illegal. I am sure that the MPAA is already thinking along those directions.

They already have region encoding so if you take your DVDs with you on flight from one region to another than you are in their eyes already guilty of trying to circumvent their region encoding scheme somehow. If you want to watch a movie you already own with North-American region-encoding in europe than you will just have to buy another DVD.

Next they will point out that some ninty percent or some ninty-nine percent of DVDs that people buy abroad and than take homw with them are illegal piarted copies so they will have their on MPAA/RIAA payroll senators and congressman pass a new law to outlaw any sort of private importation of DVDs on that basis. (It worked for P2P file-sharing.)

\It must be nice to own governments and not having to listen to reason.

LoveRBS

You know, between terrorism and pirated DVDs, I always wondered which was the greater threat to our country. But now the MPAA has made it painstakingly obvious. The real threat to our country...are idiots.


You sir, are a genious.

So that explains why half-pint got her titty bitten off on nip/tuck the other night.

Let somebody try to open my bag because a "dog smells dvds in there" That's when I start fighting physicaly for my rights.

/Illegal DVD are teh terrorists!
//Save us patriot act! Save us George!

I like this headline

I wonder if the MPAA knows you can download movies illegally using only your computer and the internets...

Now if only you could hook up a device to the computer that could "burn" these movies to a medium you could play back in your own home...

Wow, that would like totally screw them, right?

Sadly, this is real. Reuters reported on it as well as a lot of other sites.