OT: AOL Claims Property on AIM Messages

[Fyron]

Vive le Jabber!

[RudyHuxtable]

Isn't there one that lets you use a whole bunch at once, and you can use it to communicate with each server? What's the called?

[Fyron]

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.

[Thermodyne]

It would be quite easy to run them past a program that picked out key word and than target advertising with the results. Same software could also pick out key word and phrases that would be of interest to big brother. All that is needed is computing power, which I think they have an excess of. And this will basically remove any right to privacy that previously existed. I really fail to see why people put up with them at all. But I guess all those free CD’s really do suck in a lot of uninformed people.

[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