Copy protection

Copy protection - method or effort designed to prevent the reproduction of software, films, music, and other media, usually for copyright reasons. Article “Copy protection” in English Wikipedia has 42.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 57 references and 14 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.2 points.

This article has the best quality in Malay Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article “Copy protection” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 5 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Copy protection”, its content was written by 440 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 992 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 737 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2447 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #389 in November 2003
• Global: #1920 in August 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #57882 in December 2014
• Global: #22084 in January 2008

There are 23 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Malay (ms) Halang penyalinan		44.101
2	English (en) Copy protection		42.4671
3	German (de) Kopierschutz		40.1146
4	Japanese (ja) コピーガード		40.0893
5	Polish (pl) Zabezpieczenia przed kopiowaniem		35.4769
6	Indonesian (id) Perlindungan penyalinan		35.2401
7	Catalan (ca) Protecció de còpia		25.9261
8	Dutch (nl) Kopieerbeveiliging		25.3778
9	Chinese (zh) 复制保护		23.4143
10	Russian (ru) Защита от несанкционированного копирования		20.8798

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Copy protection" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	Japanese (ja) コピーガード		1 719 121
2	English (en) Copy protection		1 428 656
3	German (de) Kopierschutz		468 873
4	Russian (ru) Защита от несанкционированного копирования		166 772
5	French (fr) Protection anticopie		50 160
6	Spanish (es) Protección de copia		42 802
7	Korean (ko) 복사 방지		25 008
8	Swedish (sv) Kopieringsskydd		19 239
9	Portuguese (pt) Proteção anticópia		11 690
10	Malay (ms) Halang penyalinan		9 674

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Copy protection" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Copy protection		4 391
2	Japanese (ja) コピーガード		1 772
3	German (de) Kopierschutz		390
4	Russian (ru) Защита от несанкционированного копирования		331
5	Spanish (es) Protección de copia		79
6	Chinese (zh) 复制保护		73
7	French (fr) Protection anticopie		71
8	Portuguese (pt) Proteção anticópia		51
9	Korean (ko) 복사 방지		25
10	Arabic (ar) حماية النسخ		24

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Copy protection" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Copy protection		440
2	German (de) Kopierschutz		167
3	Japanese (ja) コピーガード		154
4	Russian (ru) Защита от несанкционированного копирования		57
5	French (fr) Protection anticopie		23
6	Swedish (sv) Kopieringsskydd		20
7	Spanish (es) Protección de copia		19
8	Norwegian (no) Kopibeskyttelse		19
9	Hebrew (he) הגנת תוכנה		14
10	Portuguese (pt) Proteção anticópia		13

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Copy protection" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) حماية النسخ		2
2	English (en) Copy protection		2
3	German (de) Kopierschutz		1
4	Catalan (ca) Protecció de còpia		0
5	Czech (cs) Ochrana proti kopírování		0
6	Greek (el) Προστασία αντιγραφής		0
7	Spanish (es) Protección de copia		0
8	Persian (fa) محافظت از رونوشت		0
9	French (fr) Protection anticopie		0
10	Hebrew (he) הגנת תוכנה		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Copy protection" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Copy protection		737
2	German (de) Kopierschutz		512
3	Japanese (ja) コピーガード		396
4	Persian (fa) محافظت از رونوشت		112
5	Chinese (zh) 复制保护		100
6	Korean (ko) 복사 방지		77
7	Arabic (ar) حماية النسخ		75
8	Portuguese (pt) Proteção anticópia		74
9	Russian (ru) Защита от несанкционированного копирования		74
10	Spanish (es) Protección de copia		73

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic حماية النسخ
ca	Catalan Protecció de còpia
cs	Czech Ochrana proti kopírování
de	German Kopierschutz
el	Greek Προστασία αντιγραφής
en	English Copy protection
es	Spanish Protección de copia
fa	Persian محافظت از رونوشت
fr	French Protection anticopie
he	Hebrew הגנת תוכנה
id	Indonesian Perlindungan penyalinan
ja	Japanese コピーガード
ko	Korean 복사 방지
ms	Malay Halang penyalinan
nl	Dutch Kopieerbeveiliging
no	Norwegian Kopibeskyttelse
pl	Polish Zabezpieczenia przed kopiowaniem
pt	Portuguese Proteção anticópia
ru	Russian Защита от несанкционированного копирования
sr	Serbian Zaštita od kopiranja
sv	Swedish Kopieringsskydd
uk	Ukrainian Захист від несанкціонованого копіювання
zh	Chinese 复制保护

Best Rank

English: #57882 12.2014

Global: #22084 01.2008

Best Rank

English: #389 11.2003

Global: #1920 08.2003

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