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		everettForth on April 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL Legally speaking, couldn't AOL have created some kind of TOS which required people to only connect to the servers with their own clients? Sure, people would still ignore the TOS, but a big company like Microsoft would comply or risk a lawsuit.

tempestn on April 23, 2014 [–]

That's certainly how things would work today. At the time the law regarding connecting to another party's servers was significantly less settled. (Not that it's entirely settled now.)

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