The timer was sent to Philip as an example. A serving suggestion, if you will. Gizmo licensing has to-the-second resolution, which leaves the possibility of trials/rentals/bonuses, all sorts of things. It's at the discretion of the content author and publisher as to how they setup their timing. A reasonably small time delay also means that we can automatically display the registration wizard in a timely manner when starting, restarting or reconfiguring your airplanes... The CRJ plugin need only query if the license is good and Gizmo handles the rest. This makes it very simple for authors to integrate and compile the DRM code in their plugin. (It did take a while to -get- here, but it's the best content protection solution we've had yet by a very wide margin, for all parties.) An initial release defaulting to more (yet, reasonable) log data is always the best bet when deploying a new system to a wide range of unknown computers. Thankfully we haven't needed the data yet, but if we had, we knew it was going to be there. Trivia: Did you know that the entire system bus for something like an Xbox 360 is encrypted? All the data, on all the wires, all the time. (well, from very shortly after boot...) 5 seconds is fairly low, it's just that you get to see it.