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MPAA's Anti-Piracy Dogs Visit Another Elementary School

By soulxtc

Lucky and Flo's North American "education" tour continues to teach children how to respect the copyrights of the multi-billion dollar entertainment industry when somebody should be teaching them how to read and write instead. At at time when many of our elementary school students are suffering from a lack of basic math and reading skills, what else could be more important than educating our kids instead about the "importance of respecting copyrights?" For Lucky and Flo, the bane of Malaysian movie bootleggers and trained in the art of anti-piracy warfare, ended their North American "education" tour with a stop at Douglas MacArthur Elementary school in Alexandria,VA today. “Lucky and Flo are the MPAA’s two most unique employees,” said Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO of the MPAA. “These two dogs have sniffed their way around the world assisting law enforcement officials in tracking down pirate operations. On top of that they have helped raise global awareness about the problem of motion picture piracy, particularly among young children.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).