Monitoring piracy at scale

FMTS finds your content quickly, wherever it appears.

Honed over two decades, our monitoring systems are fine-tuned to offer unparalleled automation, speed, and scalability.

FMTS' monitoring services are the gold standard. Highly scalable, AI-driven, automated systems running 24x7x365 enable comprehensive coverage wherever you are in the world.

Designed for all content types – sports, entertainment, movies, whether on-demand, live or linear –  our innovative technologies identify and protect your content at unrivalled scale and speed.

Across all sources of piracy, FMTS rapidly locates your stolen content to enable a range of deterrents and remedial actions.

Smarter Monitoring

Thanks to AI, FMTS monitoring is now faster, deeper, and wider in scope. The deployment of new, innovative AI and adaptive intelligence capabilities enables our monitoring services to locate and identify piracy faster, and search a far greater scope of pirated content – across all major piracy vectors, including open web, subscription IPTV services and social media. By merging technological advancements with FMTS's deep content protection knowledge, smart monitoring enables faster evidence collection and processing during the real-time monitoring of piracy targets.

This is delivering a transformative impact on content protection for customers: identifying and responding to piracy threats is now 70% faster with an increase of more than 50% in the number of available targets in our Piracy Source Register™.

At FMTS we're constantly developing and deploying new AI-driven technologies to provide an even better understanding of the piracy landscape, and how it impacts your content and revenues.

This isn’t just better monitoring - it’s smarter monitoring.

FMTS Piracy Source Register™: Unrivalled knowledge

The Piracy Source Register is FMTS' comprehensive knowledge-base of piracy-related intelligence; there's nothing quite like it anywhere else.

This resource contains meticulously curated data on both live streaming and on-demand (VOD) piracy targets across multiple vectors, including open web, deep/dark web, User Generated Content platforms (UGCs), mobile apps, file sharing services, cyberlockers, Illicit Streaming Devices (ISDs), social media platforms, KODI and even behind closed IPTV paywalls.

Enriched with nearly two decades of anti-piracy experience, it contains millions of individual records of locations, addresses, content type, titles, and other metadata. These records form the data map that our Monitoring services use to quickly and accurately locate infringing content.

Comprehensive Access Toolkit

FMTS has built and maintains a complex set of countermeasures that enable our Monitoring systems to overcome restrictions put in place by pirates to evade detection. These measures include:

• CAPTCHA resolution
• Automated site navigation
• Playback invocation
• Device-specific access methods
• Geo relocation
• Access by proxy
• Access via VPN
• Locally deployed infrastructure

Global reach with a regional focus

FMTS' monitoring systems have truly global reach, utilising data from the Piracy Source Register to locate and capture video evidence via strategic locations around the world. However, where a regional focus is required, our systems are designed with flexibility and localisation in mind and support Regional Monitoring capabilities wherever this is required, regardless of geography.

Automation that enables extreme scalability

Our monitoring services are underpinned by automated systems that enable the rapid processing of more than 3 years' worth of video per day.  As well as automated searching across a huge number of sites (known as spidering), our systems simulate end-user interactions to step through web pages, apps and other video consumption behaviours, just like a human would, but in a fraction of the time. This enables FMTS to process considerably more content than even the largest human teams, and with far greater accuracy. And where human expertise is required, FMTS' team of experienced analysts are at hand to step in and provide an extra layer of assurance

The FMTS monitoring platform is deployed in a hybrid-cloud configuration at strategic locations around the world to ensure low latency and high availability.