This isn't what you want to hear, but protecting desktop software from piracy isn't something you can bolt on at the end of a project. If everything lives on t

This isn't what you want to hear, but protecting desktop software from piracy isn't something you can bolt on at the end of a project. If everything lives on the user's machine, there is no technology that can stop it from being pirated. That's why SaaS software exists and why just about every software company of any significance founded since 1995 (the dawn of the web and the dawn of ubiquitous piracy) is either a SaaS model, advertising model, or open-source-plus-support-or-hosting model.