I believe Emmet has missed the point here. This eNow issue is not about privacy. Obviously, if you are in a public channel, privacy is irrelevant.
The point here is that a VC funded start-up dot com is using the resources which Admins and their sponsors donate for free, to supply the content for their site. If you read all the information on their site they talk about 'affiliate schemes' and 'premium areas'. This is not a non-profit making organisation, they quite clearly intend to make money from Chatscan either by advertising or by brand-building until they reach a stage where they can either float or be bought out.
IRC admins put their servers up for the personal use of others, not so some start-up company can leech bandwidth (no matter how small), and use our resources to make themselves rich.
My server has a 'No Bot' policy. Did they take this into account? Did they hell. They have broken my server's AUP and, from what other admins have said, they are ban evading and getting these bots on to the network in any way they can.
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I believe Emmet has missed the point here. This eNow issue is not about privacy. Obviously, if you are in a public channel, privacy is irrelevant.
The point here is that a VC funded start-up dot com is using the resources which Admins and their sponsors donate for free, to supply the content for their site. If you read all the information on their site they talk about 'affiliate schemes' and 'premium areas'. This is not a non-profit making organisation, they quite clearly intend to make money from Chatscan either by advertising or by brand-building until they reach a stage where they can either float or be bought out.
IRC admins put their servers up for the personal use of others, not so some start-up company can leech bandwidth (no matter how small), and use our resources to make themselves rich.
My server has a 'No Bot' policy. Did they take this into account? Did they hell. They have broken my server's AUP and, from what other admins have said, they are ban evading and getting these bots on to the network in any way they can.
This is one start-up that needs to be hammered.