IAAL, although I'm licensed to practice in my country (Paraguay, South America) which has a legal system quite different from the Anglo-Saxon sphere. So take th

IAAL, although I'm licensed to practice in my country (Paraguay, South America) which has a legal system quite different from the Anglo-Saxon sphere. So take this with a ton of salt. This is not legal advice and the whole shebang... Articles 671 and 672 of our Civil Code say basically that if there is a manifest disproportion between duties of each party due to one party's need, recklessness or inexperience, or if over the course of time the burden of one of the parties becomes too onerous, the contract might be resolved or "equitably modified". This move would fall under one of these cases and the guy could offer newer, more equitable terms. Anyway, even when I was a heavy IRC user I used mIRC sparingly. Today, I would use Konversation or Hexchat for GUI clients, and weechat or epic5 on console.