"What is next? Telling every kid not to open 'a system' to figure out how things worked? 
  Or may be lets ban engineers to be engineers?"

Sears catalogs and manuals used to have exploded-view diagrams so that consumers could determine how to repair broken products (and so that they could select the proper part to order from Sears). We need to return to that world.

I sincerely hope that we will see a backlash against corporate control of consumer goods.

The more we know about what we own, the more we can learn, the more we can modify things suit our needs, and the more we can reclaim. Fixing something means it won't enter the waste stream. The sort of individualism that hackers embrace imparts a strong sense of ownership over possessions (and code). Think Ikea. Part of the appeal is the pleasure and sense of ownership that come from assembling furniture yourself. Why should electronics be any different?

I have a project in the works to help spread knowledge about the inner workings of things:

http://takeitapart.com

It is what it sounds like. Sign up if you like, and I'll send a single email when it launches.

Sony is acting like a company trying to maximize profits, it's our government that's tasked with defending 'the people'. If the government is the enabler, why not protest them?

Your government isn't just tasked with defending the people, but also with acting on their behalf; given this, the persons that form the corporate entity Sony are not absolved of personal responsibility and subject to criticism.

The government may be allowing them to do this, but it isn't making them do it.

Sony can bitch all they want, it doesn't matter to Geohot until the government gets involved. Now we're playing for keeps. dreamhost isn't complying with Sony, they're complying with a US court order.

Why not show Sony that this strategy will not maximize profits? That's a more certain path than expecting the government to do the right thing.

Voting with your dollars is the most powerful way that you as an individual can express your opinion in a corporatocracy.

I can't find the link right now - but a guy did a study and found the most efficient way of demonstrating against a listed company was mass-shorting of stocks by protesters. I think he targeted Coke. I wish I could find the link.

Seems relevant right now. Vote with your money.