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ICQ Starts Blocking Alternative Clients

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-that's-not-how-friends-play-nice dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It appears that since yesterday ICQ has blocked access to the ICQ network to alternative clients. Users of QIP, Adium, and other clients are getting a 'The client version you are using is too old. Please upgrade'. No comment yet from ICQ or AOL."

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  1. ICQ is still around? Wow by multipartmixed · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That said, the forum thread is interesting. Looks like the ICQ admins are censoring posts.

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    1. Re:ICQ is still around? Wow by Ilgaz · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Once upon a time ICQ was de-facto standard in Turkey. You know what they did? (AOL shareholders, listen)
      They banned the TURKISH CABLE IP BLOCK, the _country_ from reaching their servers. They actually banned Cable ISP monopoly but it was like banning all active, high profile users.
      People looked to alternatives, tried proxies (yes,pathetic but needed) and they stared at something which is already installed to their system. Windows (MSN) Messenger. The outcome will amaze you. Microsoft execs are at absolute shock because Turkish MSN _active_ users exceeds 25 million. That is 1/4 of country using a single service.
      Hope the idiots banning a country because of couple lamers read this message. Yes, MSN has 25 million users... Thanks to you!