A better Project Expiry function

Has anyone created a better Project Expiry function? That is, one not dependent on setting a fixed future date during authoring to time-out a demo project. Something like a certain number of days since the project is first run on a user's machine, or a certain number of start-ups. Or some other clever method.
I realize not being able to write any data to the user's machine makes this difficult, but some method of providing test/demo version would sure be nice. (I think I already know what RodW will say about this sort of request.)

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