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.'"

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Re:Oooh, I'm shocked!

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Lord Omlette (124579) said>> I'm pretty sure this is wrong. Everything goes through AOL's servers.

ceejayoz said> I know for certain the file transfers don't - I get two megabyte per second speeds transferring between computers on the LAN here, far faster than my DSL permits over the 'Net.

Yes, that's why I mentioned looking at network traffic.

Although you have direct experience with what I was explaining, you don't get credit for that. Yet, an "I'm pretty sure this..." post without any personal experience to relate gets credit for being informative on slashdot instead of someone like you who has actually seen the direct p2p activity going on.

Either today's chosen mods are not having a good day or anything rebutting an "AOL IS SCANNING YOUR BRAIN" type story isn't as likely to get modded up.