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...their recent trip to Malaysia, Lucky and Flo did what many visitors to Malaysia do. The Southeast Asian nation is one of the global centers for pirated DVDs, and tourists often load up on illegal copies of Hollywood blockbusters that are available for a tenth of what they cost in the West. Lucky and Flo, too, nosed their way to back-street shops that hawk bootleg films. But unlike the average Western tourist, this American duo was there to bust, not buy. The pair of black Labradors, who arrived in the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur in March...
...Lucky and Flo did not disappoint. During their five-month mission in Malaysia, their detective work helped unearth $6 million in pirated DVDs and led to the arrests of 26 people. One bust targeted a bootleg-DVD factory near Kuala Lumpur that Malaysian officials estimate could have produced 60,000 copies...
...Shortly before the canine crime fighters headed to their next assignment in the U.S., they received an outstanding-service award from grateful Malaysian officials. Sadly, no big boxes of Scooby Snacks were handed out, but Flo and Lucky did receive nifty medals that complemented their lustrous coats. Their efforts were so effective that the Motion Picture Association (MPA), which had the Labradors trained to identify certain chemicals present on optical discs, reported that Malaysian bootleggers had placed a $28,000 bounty on the dogs' heads. Luckily the hounds escaped any would-be assassins...
...While China is the king of flouting copyright protection, Malaysia still consistently features on the U.S. government's piracy watch list. Local officials report that 2,000 raids were carried out last year across Malaysia, netting 5 million counterfeit DVDs. Lucky and Flo's effort will likely boost this year's bootleg count. But walking around Kuala Lumpur during the dogs' visit, I saw little evidence that video pirates were running scared. Vendors openly hawked copies of recent Hollywood hits along with popular films from India's film industry, Bollywood. Many of the covers featured misspellings - Judd Apatow's Knicked...
...privy. A Muppets allusion, perhaps? The music doesn’t make the band’s intent much clearer. Their third release, “Friend and Foe,” opens with the richly layered “Muscle ’n Flo.” Its dynamic rhythm and slide guitar give way first to a shifting piano melody and then again to an organ surging beneath. The album’s disparate songs reveal a scattered but captivating personality. Band members Brent Knopf, Justin Harris, and Danny Seim are each multitalented musicians, and their experimental...