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  • From: Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>
  • To: Development of Creative Commons licenses <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] TPM: please explicitly allow parallel distribution
  • Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 18:25:18 -0400

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Kent Mewhort <kmewhort AT cippic.ca> wrote:
>> The quote is right there. HTTPS is a technological measure. I'm not
>> sure what "effective" means, so I don't know if HTTPS is "effective"
>> or not.
> HTTPS places no restrictions wrt the/recipient/ of the work. In an
> SSL/TLS connection, the end recipient always has the decryption keys.

The recipient *computer* has the keys.

Of course, the recipient *computer* always has the keys.

> It's only other parties/middleman that have restricted access. This
> differs from TPMs, in which the recipient is/, /by the very nature of
> TPMs,//restricted from full access to the work.

You can run an HTTPS client on a TPM, can't you?

> Question for the crowd though: does the prohibition as worded really
> have the effect of barring parallel distribution?

So far as I can tell, the answer is "maybe".

I'm not sure why we shouldn't make it an explicit "yes".




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