Microsoft reportedly using TPM chips to weed out Windows piracy
PC Gamer reports that Microsoft may be using Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips to identify and combat unauthorised copies of Windows. If accurate, the approach would make piracy detection more closely tied to a device’s hardware, potentially making it harder to reuse illicit activations across different PCs.
TPM chips are security components that store cryptographic information and are already associated with Windows security features and Windows 11’s hardware requirements. The report does not establish the precise mechanism, scale of deployment or consequences for users, so the claim should be treated as unconfirmed.
- Microsoft may be linking anti-piracy checks to TPM hardware.
- TPMs could make illicit activations harder to move between PCs.
- The reported details remain unconfirmed.