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...KUALA LUMPUR...
...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, are the first dogs specifically trained to sniff out DVDs and, thus, lead investigators to any hidden caches of pirated material...
...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...
...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 Up, anyone? - but at $3 each...
...KUALA LUMPUR Raucous celebrations of Iraqi soccer victory...