[Stonecutter]

Of course it isn't true on all ipods. If it were there'd be a much bigger uproar over it. I'm sure it can be true on some ipods, however. Maybe the best thing to do would be to send it in 10 or 11 months after you buy it (say it's broken) and have them send you a new one. I'm sure they'd give you a new warrenty and it's probably not too hard to scam them into doing it (They'd much rather just give you another product that costs them about half of what they're charging than risk you possibly taking them to court for something petty like this or (more likely) risk a larger amount of bad PR.