AIM's New Terms Of Service

acaben writes "AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM, that include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: '...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.'"

Comments

so what? use a different client

[Indy1]

trillian, gaim, etc

if you really want to fuck with the yellow child molesting bastards at AOL, encrypt all your im traffic.

Best of all, give the shitheads a giant middle finger and stop using the AIM network period.

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[jrockway]

Most people avoid breaking laws because they don't want to be punished. If you don't get caught, you don't get punished. Thus, the end result is that the same thing happens to a law-breaker that happens to a non-law-breaker (i.e. nothing). Therefore, effectively, a law was not violated.