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The ultimate music anti-piracy partner

TCAT Protect. Defending creativity with technology. Empowering artists with integrity.

Tired of battling music piracy, missed revenues, and unauthorised content sharing on music digital streaming platforms? TCAT Protect is your ultimate partner in safeguarding your creative work and maximising your earnings.

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350

million+

Tracks crawled across various streaming platforms

Overall streaming revenues predicted to be reached by 2030*

*Source: Goldman Sachs

Losses are due to music piracy which digital is becoming a major target*

*Source: DataProt

Trusted by the music industry worldwide

How is music illegally exploited?

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As a rightsholder or artist, chances are your music is being illegally exploited, which is down to audio modification and inaccurate metadata. This doesn’t only violate your ownership rights - it also results in unauthorised individuals profiting from your intellectual property, leading to revenue loss for you.

So, how do you find and stop the unlicensed and illegal distribution of your music, and ensure you receive the royalties you’ve rightfully earnt?

TCAT Protect is the answer. Our advanced audio fingerprinting software matches your tracks on music streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer and Napster (together the "Monitored DSPs"), allowing you to view and review any potential infringements of your tracks in one place. This enables you to protect your property and maximise your revenue in real-time!

Take advantage of TCAT Protect, FREE for 14 days at no cost, with all the features of the Gold Plan for two selected music tracks. Following this trial, on day 15 you will automatically switch to the Bronze Free Plan, allowing you to upload up to 10 tracks, albeit with limited features. You can easily manage your subscription preferences to upgrade to the Gold or Silver Plan through your Stripe account.

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So, how do you find and stop the unlicensed and illegal distribution of your music, and ensure you receive the royalties you’ve rightfully earnt?

TCAT Protect: The Solution

Using advanced music fingerprinting and metadata analysis software, TCAT Protect is the ultimate music anti-piracy partner – all on one platform. Let TCAT Protect take away the worry of safeguarding your music and ensure your music is in the right places. What are you waiting for ACT NOW!

Cutting-Edge Music Anti-Piracy Technology & DSP Audit Software

Unauthorised Exploitation

Detection

Unauthorised Exploitation

Detection

Music Catalog Optimisation

Audio Fingerprinting & Metadata Analysis with AI

Detailed Reports

Advanced Algorithm Recognition

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Key Features

Real-time monitoring

Helps you stay ahead & act quickly to find matches to your music on Monitored DSPs.

rapid detection

Swiftly identifies any infringements, using advanced algorithms and AI techniques, giving you peace of mind

easy to use interface

Navigate with ease & keep track of your music on Monitored DSPs.

reliable & trustworthy

You can confidently rely on TCAT for your critical tasks

affordable

Budget-friendly pricing, ensuring accessibility for all Rightsholders & Artists

Scalable

TCAT grows with you, adapting to your needs & supporting you every step!

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Who can benefit from TCAT?

Protect your music, protect your future

Record labels & Music distribution platforms

TCAT Protect is the ultimate tool for music labels with large and diverse catalogs. It can help you track and optimise your music assets with ease. No matter how many songs you have, TCAT Protect can handle them all.

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Musicians, Composers & Music Producers

TCAT Protect helps musicians protect their music and get paid. The software detects unauthorised use of your tracks and gives you reports on potential infringements helping you optimise your music and your revenue.

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Institutional Investors investing in music rights

TCAT Protect is a powerful tool for institutional investors to be deployed as part of the due diligence process of acquiring catalog. Post acquisition, it can be used to protect their music assets and maximise their portfolio performance and revenue.

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Legal professionals specialising in intellectual property

TCAT Protect can help legal professionals specialising in intellectual property to deliver high-quality, data driven and cost effective legal solutions to their clients in the music industry.

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Choose TCAT Protect today and join the ranks of delighted artists and rights holders who have witnessed their music be successfully safeguarded and their revenue streams optimised.

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To access the free Bronze Plan, you must first complete the 14 day trial. Following the trial, on day 15, you will automatically transition to the Bronze Plan at no cost!

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1 User login

Up to a maximum of 10 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

Support via email only

Training via FAQs

For small teams

SILVER

£80

+VAT

Monthly

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Protects your music

Maximise your revenue streams

pro subscription

1 User login

Up to a maximum of 50 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

View streaming territories

Training via FAQs

For SMEs

GOLD

Powerful admin tools, integrations, and collaboration features for your organisation.

£320

+VAT

Monthly

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Protects your music

Maximise your revenue streams

pro subscription

2 User logins

Up to a maximum 250 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

Catalogue search

Match search

Assisted bulk upload

Choose your currency

GBP

Billed per month

Billed annually

Enjoy the benefits of all the Gold Plan
features with the Free 14 day Trial!

BRONZE

To access the free Bronze Plan, you must first complete the 14 day trial. Following the trial, on day 15, you will automatically transition to the Bronze Plan at no cost!

Start your 14 day Trial Now

1 User login

Up to a maximum of 10 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

Support via email only

Training via FAQs

For small teams

SILVER

£80

+VAT

Monthly

Buy Now

Protects your music

Maximise your revenue streams

pro subscription

1 User login

Up to a maximum of 50 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

View streaming territories

Training via FAQs

For SMEs

GOLD

Powerful admin tools, integrations, and collaboration features for your organisation.

£320

+VAT

Monthly

Buy Now

Protects your music

Maximise your revenue streams

pro subscription

2 User logins

Up to a maximum 250 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

Catalogue search

Match search

Assisted bulk upload

Choose your currency

GBP

Billed per month

Billed annually

Enjoy the benefits of all the Gold Plan
features with the Free 14 day Trial!

BRONZE

To access the free Bronze Plan, you must first complete the 14 day trial. Following the trial, on day 15, you will automatically transition to the Bronze Plan at no cost!

Start your 14 day Trial Now

1 User login

Up to a maximum of 10 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

Support via email only

Training via FAQs

For small teams

SILVER

£80

+VAT

Monthly

Buy Now

Protects your music

Maximise your revenue streams

pro subscription

1 User login

Up to a maximum of 50 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

View streaming territories

Training via FAQs

For SMEs

GOLD

Powerful admin tools, integrations, and collaboration features for your organisation.

£320

+VAT

Monthly

Buy Now

Protects your music

Maximise your revenue streams

pro subscription

2 User logins

Up to a maximum 250 tracks

Continuous monitoring in real-time

Catalogue search

Match search

Assisted bulk upload

For large organisations

tcat protect - enterprise

Powerful admin tools, integrations, and collaboration features tailored to your organisations needs.

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Loved by our users everywhere

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Barry Blue
Producer of Heatwave
I am extremely proud of my work with Heatwave and using TCAT’s technology which is extremely impressive. It’s hard to believe I am now looking back at a 50-plus year career, and with this new partnership I hope to ensure that my music will be heard for generations to come.
Steve Levine
Producer of Culture Club
For someone who has always been interested in tech, this was a big draw for me” Said Levine, “Tracking royalties across the inline world is extremely complicated... much better to partner with a company leading the way in this field. One Media’s TCAT software is a phenomenally powerful game-changing tool.
Emma Wilkinson
One Media, Senior Creative & Technical Coordinator
As a Senior Creative & Technical Coordinator overseeing 400,000 tracks, the TCAT anti-piracy tool has proven essential. Its robust detection has effectively identified infringers, streamlining our protection of artists’ rights. TCAT is reliable and offers valuable insights for music safeguarding. I strongly endorse it for anyone seeking an effective anti-piracy solution.

Barry Blue
Producer of Heatwave
I am extremely proud of my work with Heatwave and using TCAT’s technology which is extremely impressive. It’s hard to believe I am now looking back at a 50-plus year career, and with this new partnership I hope to ensure that my music will be heard for generations to come.
Steve Levine
Producer of Culture Club
For someone who has always been interested in tech, this was a big draw for me” Said Levine, “Tracking royalties across the inline world is extremely complicated... much better to partner with a company leading the way in this field. One Media’s TCAT software is a phenomenally powerful game-changing tool.
Emma Wilkinson
One Media, Senior Creative & Technical Coordinator
As a Senior Creative & Technical Coordinator overseeing 400,000 tracks, the TCAT anti-piracy tool has proven essential. Its robust detection has effectively identified infringers, streamlining our protection of artists’ rights. TCAT is reliable and offers valuable insights for music safeguarding. I strongly endorse it for anyone seeking an effective anti-piracy solution.

Barry Blue
Producer of Heatwave
I am extremely proud of my work with Heatwave and using TCAT’s technology which is extremely impressive. It’s hard to believe I am now looking back at a 50-plus year career, and with this new partnership I hope to ensure that my music will be heard for generations to come.
Steve Levine
Producer of Culture Club
For someone who has always been interested in tech, this was a big draw for me” Said Levine, “Tracking royalties across the inline world is extremely complicated... much better to partner with a company leading the way in this field. One Media’s TCAT software is a phenomenally powerful game-changing tool.
Emma Wilkinson
One Media, Senior Creative & Technical Coordinator
As a Senior Creative & Technical Coordinator overseeing 400,000 tracks, the TCAT anti-piracy tool has proven essential. Its robust detection has effectively identified infringers, streamlining our protection of artists’ rights. TCAT is reliable and offers valuable insights for music safeguarding. I strongly endorse it for anyone seeking an effective anti-piracy solution.

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Our Case Studies

Discover how our tool helped our users!

Major Distributor

The brief:

We utilised TCAT Protect fingerprinting technology, coupled with TCAT Insight's Metadata scans, to identify potential infringements on DSPs. Working with one of the world's top 50 Artists.

The results based on 65 tracks checked:

Spotify 32
Apple Music 24
Deezer 23
Napster 22
Amazon Music 18

TCAT Protect detected revenue lost:

$152,359* estimate valuation

*Estimated lifetime valuation of tracks in revenue lost based on Spotify's popularity and when they were first crawled by TCAT Protect.

The outcome:
TCAT scanned Spotify first to identify potential infringements with a popularity of over 20. Thereafter same tracks were identified on other DSPs.

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Major Distributor

The brief:

We utilised TCAT Protect fingerprinting technology, coupled with TCAT Insight's Metadata scans, to identify potential infringements on DSPs. Working with one of the world's top 50 Artists.

The results based on 65 tracks checked:

Spotify 32
Apple Music 24
Deezer 23
Napster 22
Amazon Music 18

TCAT Protect detected revenue lost:

$152,359* estimate valuation

*Estimated lifetime valuation of tracks in revenue lost based on Spotify's popularity and when they were first crawled by TCAT Protect.

The outcome:
TCAT scanned Spotify first to identify potential infringements with a popularity of over 20. Thereafter same tracks were identified on other DSPs.

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Other services TCAT offer

tcat sentinel

Sentinel Street Date: Ensures that your releases (albums) are live in all of the designated territories on legitimate streaming platforms, as well as those that are live on other territories that need to be taken down. This covers new releases from release date and audits of existing catalog.

Sentinel Migration Audit: Following a change of distributor, provides additional checks to help assure that earnings, popularity and traction are maintained as old product comes down and after the new product are delivered.

Sentinel Territory Audit: Designed to deliver a comprehensive footprint of the territorial availability of product, on Monitored DSPs.

TCAT insight

Insight Publisher: Covers identification service detects covers of tracks via a combination of metadata matching and AI-based audio analysis, to maximise a client’s revenue through detection of covers potentially missing in royalty reports.

Insight Metadata Scanning: Using a combination of metadata scans with advanced audio analysis techniques, to identify sped up and slowed down audio.

TCAT consult

The TCAT team offers the

flexibility to discuss and tailor bespoke project requirements, with pricing determined on a per-project basis. This allows clients to address specific needs and challenges in their business.

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One Media announces the launch of the TCAT Protect app

One Media Group iP’s subsidiary TCAT Ltd (“TCAT”), announces the launch of the “TCAT Protect” app with a 7-day free trial to interested music industry stakeholders.

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TCAT extend the free trial

TCAT extend the Free Trial period of its Gold Plan from 7 days to 14 days followed by its Bronze Plan for Free for the next six months!

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Robin Abeyesinhe, TCAT Managing Director, talks to Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the extended Free Trial.

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One Media announces the launch of the TCAT Protect app

One Media Group iP’s subsidiary TCAT Ltd (“TCAT”), announces the launch of the “TCAT Protect” app with a 7-day free trial to interested music industry stakeholders.

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Robin Abeyesinhe, Managing Direcor or TCAT talks to Proactive

Robin Abeyesinhe, TCAT Managing Director, talks to Proactive's Stephen Gunnion about the extended Free Trial.

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What is TCAT?

TCAT is a global music innovation company that helps music creators and publishers get paid for their work.

"In the Dynamic world of music, where every note carries the essence of its creator. TCAT (To Catch A Thief) emerges as the vanguard of integrity and fairness. By employing advanced music fingerprinting, metadata scrutiny and artificial intelligence. TCAT stands guard against piracy, ensuring artists receive due recognition and compensation."

TCAT (To Catch A Thief) - Defending Creativity with Technology. Empowering artists with integrity.

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The Original Version

FAQs

General FAQs: Please view the product demonstration video, which you can find in the above 'TCAT Protect The Solution' section.

General FAQs : Please view the product demonstration video, which you can find on above TCAT Protect The Solution section.

Do you have a short demo to show quickly how to use the product?

What is TCAT Protect?

How does TCAT Protect work?

What platforms are being searched?

How can I use TCAT Protect data?

How much does TCAT cost?

Can I have a free trial of TCAT Protect?

Can I change my subscription plan?

Can I pay extra to monitor more tracks?

How can I cancel my subscription?

Do you store my debit or credit card data?

How do I add someone to my team? Can I have multiple staff member accounts?

How do I edit permissions for my team members?

What features are available for each TCAT Protect?

Do you have a short demo to show quickly how to use the product?

What is TCAT Protect?

How does TCAT Protect work?

What platforms are being searched?

How can I use TCAT Protect data?

How much does TCAT cost?

Can I have a free trial of TCAT Protect?

Can I change my subscription plan?

Can I pay extra to monitor more tracks?

How can I cancel my subscription?

Do you store my debit or credit card data?

How do I add someone to my team? Can I have multiple staff member accounts?

How do I edit permissions for my team members?

What features are available for each TCAT Protect?

Dashboard Screen FAQs

How do I upload a track? Can I upload tracks in bulk?

What is the best format for uploading an audio file for matching?

What is metadata?

Can I change the metadata associated with a track after upload?

Do I need to fill out all the metadata fields when uploading tracks? What happens if I don’t?

How do I upload a track? Can I upload tracks in bulk?

What is the best format for uploading an audio file for matching?

What is metadata?

Can I change the metadata associated with a track after upload?

Do I need to fill out all the metadata fields when uploading tracks? What happens if I don’t?

Catalogue Screen FAQs

How do I know if a track in my catalogue is/isn’t monitored? How do I change this?

Is there a minimum period for monitoring a track?

What does “Active” mean on the Status column?

Can I change the columns in the table?

What does ISRC mean?

What does UPC mean?

My tracks have more than one ISRC associated with it, can I add them to the system?

My track features on multiple releases, can I add all of the official UPC's that my track appears on?

How do I know if a track in my catalogue is/isn’t monitored? How do I change this?

Is there a minimum period for monitoring a track?

What does “Active” mean on the Status column?

Can I change the columns in the table?

What does ISRC mean?

What does UPC mean?

My tracks have more than one ISRC associated with it, can I add them to the system?

My track features on multiple releases, can I add all of the official UPC's that my track appears on?

Matches Screen FAQs

Can I change the columns in the table?

What does the store column mean?

What does “Active” mean on the Status column?

Where do I see all the matches and how do I give them a case status?

What do the different risk ratings mean and how are they calculated?

Why has TCAT flagged some of my official tracks found on stores with a Risk Rating of High?

Why don't I see an ISRC code listed on all digital stores (“DSP’s)?

Why don't I see an UPC listed on some digital stores?

Why is the Pline string blank on some digital stores?

How soon will I see the first matched appearing after uploading a track for monitoring?

How can I search all my matches for a specific track?

If I upload a re-recorded version of a track, will TCAT match the original version?

If I delete a track from my catalogue/make it inactive, will it delete the matches too?

Does TCAT work for multiple genres of music - pop, rock, classical, dance etc?

How do I issue a takedown notice to: Spotify, iTunes / Apple Music, Deezer, Napster or Amazon Music?

Can I change the columns in the table?

What does the store column mean?

What does “Active” mean on the Status column?

Where do I see all the matches and how do I give them a case status?

What do the different risk ratings mean and how are they calculated?

Why has TCAT flagged some of my official tracks found on stores with a Risk Rating of High?

Why don't I see an ISRC code listed on all digital stores (“DSP’s)?

Why don't I see an UPC listed on some digital stores?

Why is the Pline string blank on some digital stores?

How soon will I see the first matched appearing after uploading a track for monitoring?

How can I search all my matches for a specific track?

If I upload a re-recorded version of a track, will TCAT match the original version?

If I delete a track from my catalogue/make it inactive, will it delete the matches too?

Does TCAT work for multiple genres of music - pop, rock, classical, dance etc?

How do I issue a takedown notice to: Spotify, iTunes / Apple Music, Deezer, Napster or Amazon Music?

Reports, Exports and Store Search Screen FAQs

Can pre-approved catalogs be filtered out of results to reduce the amount of results we are getting?

How can I export the matches that have been made by TCAT?

What is a Store Search screen?

Can pre-approved catalogs be filtered out of results to reduce the amount of results we are getting?

How can I export the matches that have been made by TCAT?

What is a Store Search screen?