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AIM's New Terms Of Service

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the public-knowledge dept.

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.'"

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  1. Fine, then by cerberus4696 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:Fine, then by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
      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 :-)

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      A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
    2. Re:Fine, then by MagicDude · · Score: 4, Funny

      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

  2. Re:New Terms in A Nutshell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    More like All your Rights are belong to us

  3. New "reality tv"? by Mad+Merlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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    1. Re:New "reality tv"? by sTalking_Goat · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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      My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...

  4. Re:New Terms in A Nutshell by nofx_3 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    -kaplanfx

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    Visualize Whirled Peas
  5. Re:I use Trillian... by sjbcfh · · Score: 5, Funny
    So to AOL: I say this much, exploit fjkd;arjaiwor398u233209u''rju98e32 any way you want guys!

    "Be sure to drink your Ovaltine."?

  6. Re:New Terms in A Nutshell by Beardydog · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  7. No encryption necessary by EvanED · · Score: 5, Funny

    99% of what goes over AIM is garbage anyway.

    (I know, I produce a lot of it)

  8. Re:New Terms in A Nutshell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  9. Re:New Terms in A Nutshell by identity0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, the new terms are:

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

    : )

  10. Obligatory "1984" AOL-as-BB reference... by phillymjs · · Score: 4, Funny


    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

  11. dictionary look-ups? by Dog135 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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    "That's so plausible, I can't believe it!" - Leela
    1. Re:dictionary look-ups? by geminidomino · · Score: 4, Funny

      wtf r u tlkn abt? stfu, stupd n00b.

      (ts a jk. laf)