Is Reverse Engineering a now a everyday routine?

Is it me or is devices nowadays is becoming really easy to hack, mod and re-create?

It has only been less than 2 weeks since the release of Xbox 360 Kinect, release 4th of November in the US. I already seen two or three videos or articles about a mod from the Kinect.





Just think about it. The world now revolves around technology. Every single new piece of hardware comes out. Someone would have tools on one and computer on the other. Electronic products are being reverse engineered as we know it. There would be copies or modified hardware to suit the modder or hacker's needs.

I think what I hate is that company are becoming very protective of their products. In the world today, people are going to hack and mod it there's no doubt about it. I think they should be happy that some group of people is spending time to look into their product trying to understand how it works. Not every product gets reverse engineered, only the popular or products that people believe it has potential.

Everyday thousands or even millions of electronic products comes out in to the market to do one thing earn some money. Companies become so obsessed with money that they forgot the whole point of producing the product in the first place. AND To make it worst nearly all the big companies (and I mean multi-billionaire companies) goes off complaining about people hacking their products. They earn so much money! I bet if they dont get any sales for couple of months, they would still survive with no employees fired.