Part of AIM's new Terms of Service, located at: http://www.aim.com/tos/tos.adp
> Although you or the owner of the Content retain ownership of all right, title > and interest in Content that you post to any AIM Product, AOL owns all right, > title and interest in any compilation, collective work or other derivative > work created by AOL using or incorporating this Content. 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. GeoCities tried this a few years ago with its free websites, but this is a bit much. Seeing this new verbiage, I'd seriously move elsewhere to another IM solution (back to IRC, here I come!) I don't mind the "no privacy" thing (well, duh!) but the whole we-can-use-your-chats-as-we-see-fit-at-anytime is a bit too disturbing. What say you? -rick Infowarrior.org You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
