Haihaisoft, founded in 2004, is a global leader in Digital Rights Management (DRM) core technology research and development. With more than 20 years of experience in content protection innovation, Haihaisoft is dedicated to helping organizations secure, distribute, and monetize digital content safely and efficiently.

Haihaisoft focuses on independent DRM core technology development and delivers industry-leading DRM platforms and customized DRM solutions for global customers. The company is a Microsoft partner and has long-term experience working with Microsoft DRM technologies, while continuously advancing its own proprietary DRM architecture since 2007.

Haihaisoft provides advanced content protection solutions for audio, video, PDF documents, images, web pages, static HTML, JavaScript, and dynamic websites. Its flagship DRM-X platform is widely used in online education, training, publishing, enterprise content security, SaaS platforms, live streaming, video conferencing, and information protection.

To better serve customers worldwide, Haihaisoft operates development and technical support teams in New Zealand for global customers, and dedicated development and support teams in China for mainland China customers, ensuring professional localized service and fast response.

Haihaisoft's Vision:

Become the prominent global provider of digital rights management (DRM) services and innovator in the field!

Haihaisoft's mission

We are addressing the piracy issue for our customers by utilizing advanced DRM technology. Additionally, we operate by faith, guided by the Holy Spirit, and we testify that Jesus Christ is a living God.

At the same time, Haihaisoft is a Christian company. In our lives, we experienced God's amazing love. During the hard times of developing software, we pray to the Lord Jesus. It's been His protection and help until now. We have the same Christian's great mission and values: learning Jesus Christ and honoring God's name. Preach good news, love, and help people.

Haihaisoft owns unique, self-developed DRM core technologies, including but not limited to:

• DRM-X Platform
  Comprehensive DRM protection for audio, video, PDF documents, images, and web content across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

• Advanced Screen Recording Prevention
  Haihaisoft Smart Prevent Screen Recording Technology effectively blocks screen capture and recording software at the system level.

• Dynamic & Static Website Protection
  DRM protection for:

  • Static sites: HTML, JS, CSS, Images

  • Dynamic websites: PHP, ASP.NET, ASPX, and so on.

  • Full-site encryption with high-speed performance

• Zoom & Online Meeting Protection
  Secure Zoom Web SDK, video conferencing, live streaming, and interactive broadcasts with DRM-X security controls.

• PDF & Document DRM
  Strong PDF encryption, watermarks, print control, virtual printer blocking, and hardware-bound licensing.

• Dynamic Digital Watermarking
  3 types of visible dynamic watermarks with user-specific information to prevent content leakage. Complex watermarking to prevent AI from removing the watermark.

Haihaisoft DRM solutions enable businesses to protect intellectual property, prevent piracy, stop unauthorized sharing, and ensure secure access control—no matter where or how content is distributed.

Haihaisoft DRM solutions are trusted by organizations in:

• Online education & e-learning

• Training & certification

• Information publishing

• Enterprise knowledge protection

• Government & public sector

• Software & SaaS platforms

• Media & content distribution

• Open-source DRM solutions & consulting

2004
Haihaisoft was founded and became Microsoft’s Windows Media Service Provider, obtaining Windows DRM 9 development rights.

January 2005
Released new media DRM solutions supporting portable devices, including mobile phones, MP3, MP4 players, and SDMI-compatible devices.

August 16, 2007
Released DRM-X 1.0, a next-generation DRM platform based on Haihaisoft’s independent DRM core technology. It successfully addressed Microsoft DRM cracking issues and introduced web-based DRM with stronger security and easier deployment.

April 11, 2008
Launched Haihaisoft Smart Streaming (HSS), enabling HTTP streaming of audio and video without a dedicated streaming server.

March 2010
Haihaisoft Universal Player and PDF Reader fully supported Windows 7, with continuous DRM-X client upgrades.

January 11, 2011
Released DRM-X 3.0, a cross-platform DRM solution supporting Windows, macOS, and Android.

March 2015
Introduced Enhanced Security Mode, including license revocation, forced online access, dynamic watermarks, and advanced PDF print controls.

May 31, 2015
Released HUPlayer for iOS, enabling protected content playback on iOS devices.

October 10, 2016
Released DRM-X 4.0 (Preview) with a completely redesigned security architecture, new encryption algorithms, improved streaming, HTML5 DRM support, and enhanced PDF protection.

August 28, 2017
Official release of DRM-X 4.0, supporting Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android, with Smart Prevent Screen Recording and improved dynamic watermarking.

July 30, 2018
Released Web Page Protection (Beta), supporting HTML, images, JavaScript, CSS, audio, video, and PDF.

July 11, 2019
Added Prevent Screen Recording for Windows to DRM-X 4.0.

February 24, 2020
Released Smart Prevent Screen Recording updates and customized DRM browser solutions for the education industry.

May 17, 2021
Released Dynamic Website Encryption, protecting PHP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, images, Zoom Web SDK, live streaming, and enterprise web systems.

March 17, 2022
Released HHMeet, a secure DRM-protected Zoom meeting solution supporting Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

Q1 2024
Introduced AI-Powered Smart Customer Service and expanded website language support to Arabic and Korean.

April 2025
Released DRM-X 4.0 automatic batch encryption client source code, empowering enterprises and developers to build an intelligent DRM encryption ecosystem.

Haihaisoft DRM solutions are trusted by organizations worldwide, including FranklinCovey, Kuriakos, Princeton Review, Shanghai Government, CGSchool, PacRim Group, PowerScore, Doncel Academy, IELTS Experts and Tours, CPI Academy, LMI-China, Yuanfudao, and many more.

Media Report

With Haihaisoft's development and continuous improvement of products, its reputation in the industry is also growing.

The Japan Finance Subsidiaries-Japan Digital Contents Association interviewed journalists from Japan to Shanghai about Haihaisoft. After the interview, the Japan Digital Contents Association recognized Haihaisoft's contribution to the digital content industry and promised to recommend Haihaisoft's digital rights management technology to famous Japanese enterprises such as Canon and Panasonic.

There are also some other IT technology news sites, according to Haihaisoft. Like Google News, itbusiness-edge.com. The later one was reported with Headline Watch: "BD+ Cracked, Haihaisoft Unbroken: Itbusinessedge.com Headline Watch."