OT: AOL/AIM new Terms & Conditions

[Duncan Lithgow]

> well, remember gmail and all hypes about scan email contents to show you
> ADS? this is what AOL wants to do, robots monitor your talk looking for
> most used "keywords" then show you ADS related to your "chat" at AOL web
> pages, anyway! AOL is not first but at last they announced it, others do
> it without telling you, I'm glade I don't use any of AOL services.

thanks for the mention of gmail, i hadn't thought of that. But they are
not the same thing at all. One could easily write a toc which gave one
the right to electronically scan content and supply relevant ads
*without* conneting that gathered info with your identity.

But that's not what the new AOL/AIM/IRC TOC says:

"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."

That's quite different.

Duncan