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

Fine, then

[cerberus4696]

I suppose if they want the rights to some irreversibly encrypted garbage, they can go right ahead.

Re:Fine, then

[ackthpt]

I suppose if they want the rights to some irreversibly encrypted garbage, they can go right ahead.

UUEncode Windows and send it to yourself over AIM.

Let Microsoft and AOL club each other to death :-)

Re:Fine, then

[MagicDude]

AOL users already incrypt all their transmissions. Take the simple sentence "Hey dude. What are you doing later? I was thinking we should go to the mall." which becomes incrypted as:

HEY DUDE11!!!1 OMG WUT R U DONG L8R????!?? LOL I WAS THINKNG W3 SHUD GO 2 DA MAL!!1!1!11 WTF LOL

Damned if I can decrypt that

Re:Fine, then

[arose]

i'm sorry, but the riaa replaced my shift keys with sharp needles1

Re:Fine, then

[eis271828]

They don't need to decrypt it. They have the right to adapt it. They don't specify to what extent they may adapt it. I think I'll join their workforce and adapt my political enemies' "H@*(FD428yS*@Hs98s(@" to "I hate babies."

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[Anonymous Coward]

More like All your Rights are belong to us

New "reality tv"?

[Mad Merlin]

Perhaps we're about to see AOL/Time Warner roll out a new tv show... When 12 year old girls chat to each other over AIM - Uncut and Raw!

Re:New "reality tv"?

[sTalking_Goat]

The FBI might have a problem with the conversations of their Special Agen...um... 12 year old girls, being broadcasted on late night cable.

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[nofx_3]

I'm going to have to send the up the bomb then...

-kaplanfx

Re:I use Trillian...

[sjbcfh]

So to AOL: I say this much, exploit fjkd;arjaiwor398u233209u''rju98e32 any way you want guys!

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."?

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[Beardydog]

No, you fool! You'll just give AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote the bomb as they see fit!

No encryption necessary

[EvanED]

99% of what goes over AIM is garbage anyway.

(I know, I produce a lot of it)

Solution

[Lord Kano]

ROT 13 and DMCA them if they UN rot it.

LK

Re:AIM isn't secure anymore?

[rob_squared]

" Well now what will I use to transmit all of my sensitive information? :("

Very well-crafted paper airplanes.

Interpretive Dance

[Esion Modnar]

So they could perform your AIM chat session in Times Square, or maybe even... Your AIM Chat Session! On Ice!

Hey, how about getting that guy, whathisname, the one did that thing in Central Park, to interpret your chat session in plastic sheeting or whatever, like a big condom over the Empire State.

Free association really sometimes scares me...

Could be worse, could be Gaim on a MAC

[kurt555gs]

Some one here on slashdot aptly said, GTK on OS X is like putting Janet Reno in Playboy.

Re:Third Party Clients

[emrysk]

"Also, I wonder how this will bode for ICQ; will it also become an angsty teenage panopticon?"

Become?

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[Anonymous Coward]

You had better stop worrying and learn to love the bomb, then!

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[identity0]

No, the new terms are:

"Remember, it's not rape if you click 'yes'".

: )

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[crucini]

Also...I fail to see how using Freenet to share the lastest movie would somehow make it 'legal'.

That's simple. It's impossible to actually get content from Freenet. Once you grant the impossible the improbable looks feasible by comparison.

Re:Didn't work for me.

[AndyMan1]

I can see it now:

BobTheAccountant89: Hey Sue, I just figured out a way to cut costs by 50% while boosting quality and productivity by 120%!!
SexySueTheCEO: and then he took off my bra and we were so hot
SexySueTheCEO: wrong IM window LOL
BobTheAccountant89: ROFL
SexySueTheCEO: shh.. ;)
BobTheAccountant89: bashed.
SexySueTheCEO: omg no!
BobTheAccountant89: j/k
SexySueTheCEO: lol
BobTheAccountant89: lol
SexySueTheCEO: so how do we do it?
BobTheAccountant89: well when a man loves a woman very very much...
SexySueTheCEO: OMG i mean you're idea
BobTheAccountant89: well first we blah blah blah and then we blah blah blah and then we blah blah.
SexySueTheCEO: wow that's great
***AOLSystemMSG: Your IM session has just been lost. The idea from "BobTheAccountant89" is now soley the intellectual property of AOL Time Warner Inc. per your agreement in the ToS. Thank you for using AOL. Be sure to tell your friends.

Obligatory "1984" AOL-as-BB reference...

[phillymjs]

6079SmithW: Do you remember the thrush that sang to us, that first day, at the edge of the wood?
AntiSexJulia: He wasn't singing to us. He was singing to please himself. Not even that. He was just singing.
6079SmithW: We are the dead.
AntiSexJulia: LOL! We are the dead.
AOL System Msg: You are the dead.

~Philly

dictionary look-ups?

[Dog135]

Dictionary look-ups on AIMers? You're kidding, right? Normal AIM messages look like a base64 encoded file anyways.

Re:dictionary look-ups?

[geminidomino]

wtf r u tlkn abt? stfu, stupd n00b.

(ts a jk. laf)

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[simcop2387]

just because there is no one there to hear the tree does not mean that it does not make a sound

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[myowntrueself]

"You had better stop worrying and learn to love the bomb, then!"

But first we will need many large-breasted women.