I do think that Motorola has gone too far in this, they shouldn't be designing their phone to break when you mess with it. But you bring up an important point.

I do think that Motorola has gone too far in this, they shouldn't be designing their phone to break when you mess with it. But you bring up an important point. Many (if not most due to scale) of the people who are rooting their phones are not developers/tinkerers. I was talking to a very non-technical person the other day and they said a friend had sent them instructions on how to jailbreak their iPhone. This person just followed the instructions and then was able to download a navigation app for free. Not so much your noble hacker. Blah blah blah, DRM is bad so people should be able to steal if they want to, I agree with that. But these companies see the same problems the video game companies have seen and attempted to solve with DRM.