Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Anthony <osm AT inbox.org>]

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".