Friend MTS launches AI-powered piracy enforcement platform

The FMTS Platform gives content owners, broadcasters, and OTT service providers a single access point to the tools protecting their content, alongside one connected view of the AI-driven analysis, guidance, and insight needed to operate any successful anti-piracy strategy. Monitoring, watermarking, social media, blocking, intelligence, enforcement, and analytics work as a unified system rather than a set of separate tools.  

Every case on the platform can reportedly be actioned in one click via the platform's API. Teams can see an infringement, issue a takedown, file a claim, investigate, or escalate without ever leaving the platform, drawing on the 26,000 hours of content Friend MTS captures and processes every day.  

The AI at the heart of the FMTS Platform is trained on that knowledge, and continuously searches for patterns indicative of illegal behaviour. With the capability to monitor across the open web, closed platforms, social channels and streaming services – including closed IPTV and covert social channels – the FMTS Platform surfaces actionable intelligence, backed up by a dedicated team of piracy experts.  

For example, Friend MTS’s intelligence recently helped Operation KRATOS 2, a seven-month Europol-coordinated investigation, dismantle nine organised crime groups, leading to 29 arrests, more than 27,000 illegal streaming URLs removed and 722,961 infringing objects identified.  

Shane McCarthy, CEO, Friend MTS, said: “Piracy is increasingly AI-enabled, and that means the strategies to combat it must be too. The new FMTS Platform brings together all aspects of anti-piracy monitoring and action into one place, incorporating AI-driven data capture, analysis, insight and guidance. It puts the intelligence that wins back revenue at our customers’ fingertips so they can take action. Piracy never stops changing, and the AI at the core of the FMTS Platform is built to stay ahead of it.”  

Anti-piracy and video cybersecurity specialist Friend MTS recently announced a partnership with Jasmine International (JAS TV) to safeguard premium live sports across Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. Discover more here.