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Originally Posted by s3lf_c3nt3red
To better explain the '3 day, 3 play' rule, think of the situation as follows: While the song is on your Zune without you connecting to your computer, you are allowed to play the song 3 times only. However if you have yet to play the song, but you connect your Zune to your computer, it's possible that the Zune software (the previous version because they've eliminated the 3 day part of the rule) keeps a log of when you originally received a song, much like the same way it keeps a dated track of when a picture is sent to you and places that picture in a folder with the corresponding date as the folder name when you copy the picture to your harddrive through the Zsoftware. To put it simply, the 3 play part of the rule was kept in check by the Zunes (showing that they have no internal uninterruptable power source), the 3 day part of the rule was kept in check by the computer and Zune software.
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The 3 play rule has little to do with the clock thread here, and the zune has the capacity to deny playback / delete the file before its connected to the zune software again, I run my zune months sometimes between connecting it to the software... if MS relied entirely on the software to manage the 3 play / 3 day rule (however it was in the original release, even to how it is now) then there would be ways to bypass the rules way more easily.