British commercial broadcaster ITV, currently the subject of a £1.6 billion ($2.16 billion) acquisition by Sky, has renewed its contract with anti-piracy technology provider Friend MTS. At Faultline, we love clandestine content security announcements as much for the proof of proactive behavior in the battle against piracy as for their familiar lack of tangible information. On the hunt for details, we requested data-based contextual evidence about what drove ITV to continue using Friend MTS’s Global Monitoring service to protect its main linear channels across broadcast and streaming platforms for another two years. After all, a contract renewal is a sign of doing something right, so what exactly has Friend MTS achieved for ITV over the past two years? By how…