I am boggling at AOL's terms of service right now. Check out this quote from it:

"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."

wow...

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

Now the way I understand it, they are a 'common carrier' meaning they cannot be responsible for, for example, you transmitting illegal content using them. Now here they are saying all that content belongs to them, forever.

Wow.