AOL Time Warner is still

AOL Time Warner is still trying to block people who use Trillian to communicate with users of AOL's proprietary Instant Messenger (below). Now it has taken to disconnecting users for "accessing the AOL network using unauthorized software", reports PC World.com. The US government is well aware of AOL's policy, and the Federal Communications Commission raised the point when allowing the AOL-CNN-Time Warner merger. It wrote here: "we find that the proposed merger would enable AOL Time Warner to dominate the next generation of advanced IM-based applications. To remedy this harm, we impose a condition requiring AOL Time Warner, before it may offer an advanced IM-based application that includes streaming video, to provide interoperability between its NPD-based applications and those of other providers, or to show by clear and convincing evidence that circumstances have changed such that the public interest will no longer be served by an interoperability condition." AOL also owns ICQ, amongst other things.