Amazon Fire TV lawsuit claims company killed old support to encourage upgrades

• A class action lawsuit accuses Amazon of effectively bricking first- and second-generation Fire TV Stick streaming hardware.
• The plaintiff alleges that Amazon never warned that functionality would be reduced before support was cut off.
• Instead of offering compensation to owners, Amazon reportedly encouraged them to upgrade to new hardware.

Amazon may still be an untouchable giant when it comes to online retail, but the company’s consumer tech efforts have found themselves receiving quite a bit of negative attention lately. Luna game streaming is killing off one of its biggest features, older Kindles are being shut off from Amazon’s servers, and the latest Fire TV hardware is designed to block your attempts to sideload software. But shoppers are also starting to push back, and one group of Fire TV users is heading to court in an effort to hold Amazon accountable.

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