AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM:
http://www.aim.com/tos/tos.adp
These new Terms include the right for AOL to use anything and
everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without
informing you. A sample passage: '...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.'
http://www.benstanfield.com/thrash/...avesdrops_.html
So beware when you use AOLIM these days because the fly on the wall is
named AOL Time Warner and it is listening and recording

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does this apply to ICQ as well .. ?

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That's fucked.

Every now and then I'm going to pick a random AOL executive and write: "I heard that [name of executive] eats wieners!" (Just to see if anybody's listening )

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2009-06-18 - DJ Annoying @ People Need To Know Where I'll Be
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Originally posted by dEsidEL does this apply to ICQ as well .. ?

It does specifically say AIM product as opposed to AOL product, so presumably no, but then again they're all part of the same network so who knows if there's even any difference on their end.

P.S. I hear that Jonathan Miller eats wieners.

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My party schedule:
2009-02-21 - DJ Attention @ I'm So Popular
2009-06-18 - DJ Annoying @ People Need To Know Where I'll Be
2012-11-32 - DJ Insufferable ɸ Or At Least the Stalkers I Complain About
2048-06-66 - Spastic & Whocares ¶ Although I'm Actually Flattered
9999-45-81 - Tweaker Gimp ☼ I Probably Won't Even Go To This But I Have To Make Sure I Fill Up All The Available Space Here

thx

ya i am switching any im conversation i can to msn msgr -- not that i have so much to be private about but it is the principle of the matter!
the problem is there is a lot of my friends who only have aim b/c they started using it when they got aol as their internet providers in the mid-90's

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thats really sketchy
ok , i have to withdrawl my support for icq

nothing new there...

the same clauses exists on many services offered on the net.

If I remember well geocities had the same clause.

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Originally posted by Pettiscool thats really sketchy ok , i have to withdrawl my support for icq

boo !! the further rape of ICQ has not yet been confirmed !

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Originally posted by malek nothing new there... the same clauses exists on many services offered on the net. If I remember well geocities had the same clause.

Geocities is different though... if you're putting something on to a public website, presumably you know that other people may view / use your content.

When you're sending a private instant message to another user, I don't think you'd expect the content you send could be ripped off by the provider.

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Originally posted by baystreetboi Geocities is different though... if you're putting something on to a public website, presumably you know that other people may view / use your content. When you're sending a private instant message to another user, I don't think you'd expect the content you send could be ripped off by the provider.

yes but its still an "escape clause", so that AOL would never be held responsible if someone found a loophole in the way the software works and intercepts your messages.

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malek you look a lot more gangsta from last time i saw you...

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?