New AIM Terms of Service Suck
 

AOL changed it's terms of service. Have a look at this:

"...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."

Here's the source (with more information) that I recieved this from.

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Sorry about that.

Here's the link: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...tid=158&tid=17

fuck AOL

AOL owns ICQ too - I had a quick look but I haven't seen anything in the TOS yet. However, I suspect that ICQ conversations can be treated the same way.

It's really the "performing" part that bothers me.

They are eavesdropping and will steal all your business plans :winkwink:

I sure hope not, I've had some really bad ideas ;)

thats fine, as long as they dont steal my cyber seduction techniques

So, if AOL is doing this, does it stand to reason that msn is, also?

And, Yahoo?

I hope someone puts a stop to that. That's huge.

Matt

best response yet

good thing i don't use them, still a cause of alarm

ICQ is the best to use for business AIM is used to talk to friends only

i concur.they want to stop spam, meanwhile the 2months i had my AOL account, when I logged in I was flooded with ads, on top of paying what $25/month? ridiculous.

same terms of service that Hotmail had... dont' know if they still do.

more aol shit

good thing i use smoke signals. my only enemy are the indians next door.

Wow, really?

Matt

[QUOTE=Nysus]Wow, really?

Matt[/QUOTE

Yup, for a long time. It said right in there that Microsoft reserved the right to reproduce, publish or pretty much do anything they want with anything that was on their servers or in their systems, which included everyone's emails in hotmail.

A friend of mine says he doubts AOL records private chats. He thinks this applies to public postings.

My guess is that it also protects them in civil and criminal actions where they have to release information.

This comes as no suprise...

AOL :321GFY

..governments, and corporations have been evesdropping for years. Ever heard of Eschelon?


http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/14/058247.shtml
http://www.trumpetsounds.com/l000515.html
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/09/05/1030228.shtml

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