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 :-)

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: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)

Re:New Terms in A Nutshell

[Anonymous Coward]

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

dictionary look-ups?

[Dog135]

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