acaben writes “AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM, that 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.'”
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It’s funny. I always had this paranoid (?) belief that anything I said on aim could be read by the aim people and like used against me or someone else, like admitting when I was younger I shoplifted or that I had a friend who did cocaine and like they’d come after me and arrest me. And I thought that was the most paranoid of delusions. But uhm…guess not?
Yeah, it’s kinda creepy. Big Brother is out there and he’s working for AOL-Time-Warner-Satan
So if I passed a copy of one of my novels to you on AIM, AOL could publish it without my consent?
It seems that is the case.
evil
Wow. I bet they thought no one would notice.
I bet they thought no one would care. And most people likely don’t.
Yea, we were talking about this at school today…
it’s sad….