Amazon tightens the digital handcuffs
One of the most noteworthy events in the history of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) was Amazon's Orwellian deletion of George Orwell's 1984 from its customer's e-readers. Ever since then, it's been a touchstone of anti-DRM activism, giving users yet another reason to avoid the "Swindle", as if its proprietary software isn't enough. Just last week, Amazon showed that its campaign against literacy is still very much alive by depriving users with older Kindles (i.e. loyal customers) of the ability to transfer e-books to their devices via USB. As the oldest models of the devices don't have wireless cards, this was the only officially supported method of transferring new books over to the device. (Thankfully, free software able to do this exact thing has existed for years.)