OT: AOL Claims Property on AIM Messages

[Baron Munchausen]

If they are serious about this then they've just killed AIM dead as a doornail. There is plenty of competition and every one will switch in a heartbeat when they realize that AOHell is claiming to own their messages.

Are you sure this is not being misinterpreted?

[Baron Munchausen]

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

Oops, looking at the Slashdot article, I guess it's real.

Baron Munchausen's corporate corollary to Murphy's Law:

Whatever is too stupid to be done, will be done by some corporation.

Never underestimate the stupidity of corporations.

[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.