AOL Changing IM Terms of Service

gpmac writes "AOL has responded to the recent slashdot attention. America Online Inc. plans to make three small but significant modifications to the terms of service for its AIM instant messaging product to head off a firestorm of privacy-related criticisms. The tweaks to the terms of service will be made in the section titled "Content You Post" and will explicitly exclude user-to-user chat sessions from the privacy rights an AIM user gives up to AOL."

Comments

Nice

[wandernotlost]

They must have read my complaints in my away message.

Too little, too late

[Capt'n Hector]

I've already stopped flirting with girls on IM. Although, I am working on a secret code. People that intercept my instant messages won't be able to understand a word I'm saying. I'll replace "you" with "u", "that's funny" with "lol", "skate" witk "sk8." Things like that. All in the name of privacy.

Re:Too little, too late

[Hatta]

Unfortunately, Microsoft has already shown people how to decode [microsoft.com] these messages.

Circumventing a content protection scheme. Shame on them. Where's the DMCA when you need it?

Re:Too little, too late

[canwaf]

I have a very similar system.

First I move all the consonants up to the first vowel in the word I am "translating" to the end of the word. After that is completely I append "ay" to the end of the word.

Microsoft will never know is being written... ever!

Coupled with the unbreakable rot 13 code, it's almost impossible to read.

Lbhnl nirunl bganl hfgwnl rnqenl vfgunl ragraprfnl.

bye bye

[donnyspi]

{Sound effect: chi-tunk}
donnyspi signed off at 13:56:26 PM

AOL's new motto

[Zemplar]

"We AIM to Please!"

From information gathered by reading your private messages, we've decided to retract former policies.

At least one thing your parents told you was true

[clickster]

See Timmy, if they work really really hard, a few hundred thousand people really can make a difference.

It is my sincere hope...

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

That the corporate attorney that wrote the first 'draft' is on the street looking for another job right now.

Re:Blag

[blackmonday]

"He who uses AOL for security deserves neither AOL nor security." - Benjamin Franklin

The power of /.

[PhatboySlim]

Now we just need to get the RIAA to read a few articles.

Re:very costly

[rbochan]

Maybe THAT'S what's on all those damn aol cds...

pr0n

[Flamesplash]

"pr0n": An anagram of "porn," possibly indicating the use of pornography.

man, I wonder who they needed the second part of that for.

'oh good, it's just porn, little jimmy isn't getting into anything wrong. Let me check the Microsoft dictionary just in case... Pornography!!!'