AIM New Terms of Service

[Jersey46l]

"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. "


http://www.aim.com/tos/tos.adp


I got this from an article linked through the drugde report, here is the article: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1775649,00.asp


My question is this: What do you think the ramification of this will be? Will illegal conversations over AIM be tracked? Looked at by the government? Does this open up doors to find illegal drug deals organized through aim? For example, would this allow AOL to look at a persons instant messaging, search for words (heroin, coke, dope, etc), and report such findings to federal agencies? Or ban members? I am not an AOL subscriber, but do use AIM. Obviously this new ToS leads to any number of privacy issues, but the one I'm currently concerned about are illegal things. Anybody have any ideas? Thanks





BTW this is my first post, but I have enjoyed reading these forums in the past.