The same mechanism games are going to use for anti-cheat are soon going to be used for normal software too. You could imagine Adobe for example using the TPM to

The same mechanism games are going to use for anti-cheat are soon going to be used for normal software too. You could imagine Adobe for example using the TPM to ensure there is no license deactivating modifications. The problem is, after some time demands will be made as a requirement of porting software into Linux and soon we'll have this in the Linux kernel.