The Register reports that it's now ten years since people began ruining their hearing with portable MP3 players, rather than the portable cassette players we had to use for that purpose in my day. Predictably, the music industry, as part of it's unceasing campaign to prevent people from listening to music, went ballistic over it, but fortunately Apple came to the rescue with a music player that was deliberately broken in ways that kept the industry happy - or at least less petulantly aggrieved.