[clug] kopete/MSN

[Jason]

It would be interesting to know when this clause entered their policy, and what it means to Joe Blogs user.

For instance I still use the same account I have had since pure 2000, no idea when I got it, sometime I high school I think so I was probably a minor and not bound to the agreement at the time. I don't even have the email address anymore that I use to logon. Does my use of gaim violate their rules some how and with a fairly open unencrypted text based protocol like Ive been told msn uses, how much say do they actually legally have over what end client people use.

I wonder what restrictions I never read for the yahoo, icq and gmail protocols I also use through the same gaim client (still called gaim in this release of Ubuntu). In the case of the yahoo one I would be surprised if I ever explicitly signed on as a yahoo chat user so it would have had to have been in the original geocities use agreement that I agreed to (once again as a minor) before yahoo brought them out and moved everyones accounts over.

Jason


On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:55:03 +1000, Brian <bnc at astronomicalresearchaustralia.org> wrote:

> Tim, What emailaddress/password was that?
> Your current ISP one or one that you already had from MSN?
>
> If you registered on the MSN network did you read the policy you agreed to?
>
> Brian
>
>
> Tim wrote:
>> I've been using kopete to talk on MSN for about 12 months now and have
>> never had any issues.  I didn't have to set up anything though - simply
>> enterred my email address and password and everything worked as the
>> microsoft client does.
>>
>> I'm running Kubuntu 7.
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> Brian wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have just spent a few hours compiling kopete to work with my UVC V4L2
>>> camera(took me two goes).
>>>
>>> Local test worked fine, went to logon to MSN to enable me to talk
>>> interstate and found I had to sign in.
>>> Then I had to allow cookies, only just did that.
>>> Then I had to agree to Microsoft's terms.
>>> Well I decided to read them(big mistake) and found
>>>
>>> "4. How You May Not Use the Service.
>>>
>>> use any unauthorized third party software or service to access the
>>> Microsoft instant messaging network (currently known as the .NET
>>> Messenger service);"
>>>
>>> Naturally kopete was not listed:)
>>>
>>> I currently have ekiga working fine and I have got my brother interstate
>>> to load it up on his windows box. So will try that next.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I still may need to use MSN for other people.
>>>
>>>
>>> 1) Has anybody used kopete to access MSN.
>>>
>>> 2) what do other people use to talk/video MSN type people?
>>>
>>> 3)kopete has a few other chat  type protocols but not sure if any of
>>> them do video, and will talk to windoze boxes.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
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