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Originally Posted by tropicallie
Kobo bought the remnants of the Sony reader software and since that time has directed ebook traffic to the Kobo store via the big Kobo button that resides on our home screen. I had never bought any books from Kobo prior to that and have been happy with the Kobo service. I find it perplexing though that Rakuten (who owns both Overdrive AND Kobo) would purposely put out an update that hobbles the Sony reader from which they receive revenue. Is it coincidence that Kobo came out with an ereader capable of downloading library books directly to the device prior to releasing the new Overdrive? Kind of like -Oh hey, so sorry about your Sony but here - lookee what we've got.
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It's possible, but since the reason given was "security" and it moved from using http to https the actual given reason is probably the reality. That change also meant that older versions of, for example, desktop ADE didn't work, so it wasn't specifically aimed at Sony devices. Unfortunately time moves on and security requirements change and with a manufacturer abandoned hardware you're left out in the cold. It's not reasonable to expect them not to increase security based on the number of massive hacks of companies we've seen in the past few years.