Wednesday, August 8, 2007

The New Face of Law

Two black Labradors, named Lucky and Flo, teamed with the MPAA and Malaysian law enforcement officers to raid a suspected pirating operation Friday in Kuala Lumpur.
The crew-both human and canine-seized 18,000 illegal discs from the factory, plus three optical disc replicating machines capable of producing at least 10.6 million pirated optical discs per year worth in excess of $21 million, the MPAA says.
Worldwide piracy revenue losses for member studios amounted to $6.1 billion in 2005. About $2.4 billion of that was lost to bootlegging, $1.4 billion to illegal copying and $2.3 billion to Internet piracy. Roughly $1.2 billion came from piracy across the Asia-Pacific region.
Lucky and Flo are "the world's first dogs trained to sniff optical discs," helped uncover the stash.

Chinese officials have hinted that they may cash in its trillions of dollars in U.S. foreign reserves as a way to threaten the United States congress to ease up on its push for re-evaluation of the Chinese yuan. If China began liquidating these massive investments, the U.S. financial markets would face a major downward spiral.
(Maybe we ought to send Lucky and Flo to enforce our laws. Congress can't seem too!)

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