OT: AOL Claims Property on AIM Messages

[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.