Compare the Top Anti-Piracy Software for Windows as of February 2026

What is Anti-Piracy Software for Windows?

Anti-piracy software is designed to prevent unauthorized copying, sharing, or distribution of digital content such as software, music, movies, and games. It employs a range of technologies, including digital rights management (DRM), license verification, and encryption, to ensure that content is only accessed by authorized users. This software often includes monitoring and detection systems to identify and mitigate piracy activities across online and offline platforms. It helps protect intellectual property, ensuring creators and businesses retain their revenue and maintain control over their work. Additionally, anti-piracy software is continuously updated to counter new piracy methods and adapt to evolving technological landscapes. Compare and read user reviews of the best Anti-Piracy software for Windows currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Quick License Manager (QLM)

    Quick License Manager (QLM)

    Soraco Technologies

    Quick License Manager (QLM) is a license protection framework that creates professional and secure license keys to protect your software against piracy. Create trial, subscription, and perpetual licenses keys. Licenses can be node locked or floating/concurrent. Protect applications developed in .NET, ASP.NET, C++, VB6, VBA, Delphi, Excel, MS-Access, Word, Outlook add-ins, Android, Mac OS X, Linux, etc. Manage license keys with a state-of-the-art graphical user interface. Protect your application with a few lines of code. Send email notifications to your customers based on selected triggers. e-Commerce integration to automate the license key generation process with the ordering process. Analytics to understand usage behavior. Self Help portal for your customers. Check for Updates for your application. Trial Registration Form to allow your customers to request a trial license.
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    Starting Price: $200 one-time payment
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    Red Points

    Red Points

    Red Points

    Red Points is a fully managed, AI-led brand protection platform that helps companies detect and remove counterfeits, impersonation, piracy, and other online infringements. The platform protects brands across digital channels, including marketplaces, websites, social media, paid ads, mobile apps, and domains, and supports complex enforcement needs such as domestic China protection and large-scale revenue recovery programs. Combining automated detection, expert oversight, and proven enforcement workflows, Red Points identifies and removes infringing content at scale. Its AI models process more than 2.7 billion data points each month, enabling image recognition, keyword detection, seller network analysis, and infringement prioritization. Born in Barcelona and based in New York, Red Points helps enterprise brands scale digital protection through technology, mature operations, and specialized expertise.
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    CodeMeter

    CodeMeter

    Wibu-Systems

    CodeMeter is the award-winning protection, licensing, and security system that gives software publishers and ISVs as well as intelligent device makers a complete arsenal to protect IP and fight cyber-threats while harnessing the power of smart licensing to monetize and grow their business. CodeMeter includes a complete lineup of license containers - hardware-, software-, or cloud-based - to store secret license keys safely, a set of stealthy encryption modules, and a versatile array of backend and frontend tools for license management, augmented by professional services. CodeMeter License Central is the versatile gateway to license creation, delivery, management, and monitoring across the complete license lifecycle. The integral CodeMeter Protection Suite comprises a suite of tools that automatically encrypt the compiled code to protect software from piracy, counterfeiting, reverse engineering, and tampering.
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    Intertrust ExpresssPlay
    Content protection and anti-piracy services for premium and high-value OTT streaming and broadcast delivery. Cloud-based multi-DRM content protection and media monetization service for video streamers and content distributors. Cloud-based broadcast TV security solution, enabling direct-to-TV broadcasting to smart TVs without STBs/CAMs, reducing CAPEX/OPEX. Comprehensive anti-piracy services featuring digital fingerprinting, forensic watermarking, web monitoring and piracy take-down. The emergence of streaming as a crucial component of pay-TV business models has spawned unprecedented online piracy. Reversing this worrisome trend requires a new, innovative approach that goes well beyond legacy security platforms optimized for traditional broadcasting and streaming services. To ensure robust content protection in this new era, Intertrust offers the ExpressPlay Media Security Suite, comprising cloud-based multi-DRM service, anti-piracy and forensic watermarking services, and more.
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    DRM-X

    DRM-X

    Haihaisoft

    DRM-X 4.0 content protection platform, with new security architecture and more advanced security features. You can securely distribute protected Audio/Video, PDF, Web pages, Images and Javascript to Windows, Mac, iPhone/iPad and Android. With DRM-X 4.0 protection, you can get rid of the problem that you cannot effectively deliver and sell these contents due to piracy. DRM-X, Haihaisoft's digital rights management platform. Haihaisoft provides DRM as a service. The copy protection platform includes: File Encryption, Audio/Video Encryption, PDF Encryption, and Web Page (HTML DRM Encryption), all of them with DRM-X 4.0 advanced DRM features, and you can manage users, groups, rights and license profiles online in your DRM-X account. DRM-X 4.0 is a new generation DRM software platform based-on Xvast browser. It with new security architecture, support online/offline playback, improved user experience. DRM-X provides dynamic watermarking capabilities on protected digital content.
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    Denuvo

    Denuvo

    Irdeto

    With video gaming growing at an astonishing rate and the Metaverse looming on the horizon, securing the industry from piracy and cheaters while ensuring the best gaming experience is more important than ever. Denuvo Anti-Tamper and anti-cheat technologies protect PC games from piracy and detect cheating, so that you can decide how you respond to cheaters. Denuvo anti-tamper and anti-cheat solutions protect your mobile games from tampering, cracking, cloning, cheating, debugging, reverse engineering, and modding. Denuvo anti-cheat protects sensitive game logic and data and detects cheating in games so that you can decide how you respond to cheaters. Enabling a secure way to distribute games over new channels besides existing platforms. You can create your own PC platform (Windows, Linux, and/or macOS), save up to 30% of the revenue typically paid to the platform providers, and keep full control over the distribution.
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