OT: AOL Claims Property on AIM Messages

[Suicide Junkie]

You can read it right from AOL's site too.
http://www.aim.com/tos/tos.adp

In addition, 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. You waive any right to inspect or approve uses of the Content or to be compensated for any such uses.

[Azselendor]

I wonder, does this mean if terrorist use AIM, then AOL is somehow supporting and claiming ownership over terrorist plans? lol

[boran_blok]

If so could we sue AOL for not preventing aforemented plans of being executed ?

Anyways, silly stuff imho, Very very very dangerous, in essence they can have a 24/7 monitor on your chat behaviour.

[Phoenix-D]

Imperator Fyron said:
Tons.

http://www.trillian.cc/
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
http://www.miranda-im.org/

To name a few. All of these support Jabber, I believe... Not postive about Miranda, but it likely does.

None of which will do you any good because the agreement covers -accounts-, not the program.

If you use these, you're still subject to the AOL TOS, and they -still- claim ownership of everything you send to an AIM user.

[Captain Kwok]

I think he was recommending the Jabber chat service in this case, over AIM, MSN, etc. - not saying using the listed chat clients with existing AIM accounts etc.

[Fyron]

Phoenix-D said:
If you use these, you're still subject to the AOL TOS, and they -still- claim ownership of everything you send to an AIM user.

Right, but not over Jabber, which is what I was mentioning them for.

[Sivran]

This is why we have this thing called encryption