Friend MTS is a leading global provider of advanced content security and anti-piracy services and solutions
From forensic watermarking, fingerprint-augmented content monitoring and legal enforcement to actionable business intelligence, we disrupt real-world piracy to protect revenue for content owners, broadcasters and OTT service providers and maximise their investment in live, linear and on-demand high-value content.
Watermarking
Identify the source of leak and illegal redistribution of live and on-demand content on the distributor and subscriber level to shut down piracy in real-time.
Detect illegally redistributed live and on-demand content across web, social media, mobile apps, pirate IPTV services, illicit streaming devices, add-ons, plugins, etc.
Coupled with unrivalled expertise in its interpretation and analysis, our piracy intelligence, not accessible from any legitimate sources, provides unique actionable insights.
Friend MTS has been pioneering the development of content protection and anti-piracy services and solutions for over 20 years. Deployed by the biggest sports and entertainment brands, our watermarking and content monitoring solutions protect the most popular global live sporting events as well as tens of millions of set-top boxes and OTT players worldwide.
The scale of content fraud today makes broadcasters and OTT service providers look for more advanced and automated content protection and anti-piracy services and solutions. Chris Gibbs, Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Friend MTS spoke to Alvaro Jeanneau, Senior Director, Media Rights Management at TelevisaUnivision during the SportsPro USA event held in New […]
Illegal IPTV ecosystem Recent research conducted by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) on content fraud reflects the complexity of the illegal IPTV ecosystem. The diagram the organisation published shows the interconnected network of unauthorised content providers, wholesalers and resellers as well as various enablers (including legal entities) that knowingly or inadvertently support this […]