It seems a contract's been put out on the MPAA's Malaysian anti-piracy disc sniffing dogs, with "syndicate bosses" offering an undisclosed bounty for their heads.After a recent seizure of almost $3 million USD worth of pirated DVDs and VCDs, "syndicate bosses" have put a contract out on the 2 optical disc sniffer dogs the MPAA recently loaned to Malaysia as part of an aggressive new anti-piracy plan that were responsible for the high profile bust. "Following the successful raid at a shopping complex in Johor Baru on Tuesday, sources informed the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs that syndicate members are looking for the dogs," the ministry’s enforcement assistant director, Firdaus Zakaria, said yesterday. "The dogs are a genuine threat to the pirated disc syndicates, thus the instruction to eliminate them."  The dogs have been placed in a sort of "witness protection program," and are being shuttled to a variety of different safe houses to keep them out of the reach of people looking to kill them and collect the bounty that is being offered. Lucky and Flo, the names of the two anti-piracy dogs, were trained and sent there at the expense of the Motion Picture Association of Malaysia, and were the first such dogs trained specifically to sniff out polycarbonates, one of the main ingredients that make up optical discs. The bust was the first major assignment for the duo, and the bounty on their heads is a sign of just how successful the bust apparently was. I just wonder if they now have to wear bulletproof vests and disguises. Maybe, maybe not but, I love the fact that they've now got "syndicate bosses" after them. You just can't make this kind of stuff up. RELATED NEWS AND "HOW TO" GUIDES:3 Quick Ways to Watch Movies for FREE!3 quick ways to watch TV shows for FREEBitTorrent tracker sites & search enginesAzureus - A Beginner's Guide to BitTorrent DownloadinguTorrent - A Beginner's guide to BitTorrent downloadingWatch The Simpsons, The Office, Jackass, South Park, Lost, X-Men, and More On-Demand For FreeSOULXTC: "walkin' the streets of P2P"
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on the otherhand, you may be right, but i think its just as likely that the story is true as is.
I've never been a dog person...
Im sure it was the commercial value and not the hardware value they cited.
And it's a good bet the $$$ amount is way inflated. Cops do the exact same thing with drug busts to make themselves look good.
Yeah its always "street price" and never the actual price.