Why do illegal audio devices seem to be increasing at races?

Are others seeing this increase of illegal use of audio devices at your races? Why are so many folks willing to ignore the rules? Do not like the rules, do your own race.

I think you’ll enjoy this story -

A total of 48 runners were disqualified from the annual **Beverley **10k race yesterday for wearing headphones, it has emerged.
Event organisers said listening to music breached health![http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png](http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png)  and safety rules and that the regulation was included in an email sent to all participants beforehand. 

Most were told at the finishing line that their timings would not be recorded.
Runners spoke of their anger today after being disqualified.
http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Dozens-runners-disqualified-Beverley-10k-wearing/story-29249388-detail/story.html