Recorded phone call between NFL GMs

[Gunpowder]

What's the legality of this?

http://deadspin.com/pranksters-record-t ... -452366184

Spoiler alert: Ryan Fitzpatrick is not the future!

[Jerloma]

Those guys sound exactly how they look.

[ZMan]

I fucking hate you J-Lo

[Steve of phpBB]

What's the legality of this?

http://deadspin.com/pranksters-record-t ... -452366184

Spoiler alert: Ryan Fitzpatrick is not the future!

I'm not up on the details, but I think they are treading a fine line under the Federal Wiretap Act. State laws, too.

[Jerloma]

I fucking hate you J-Lo

It's for Chedda. He's a huge fan.

[Steve of phpBB]

What's the legality of this?

http://deadspin.com/pranksters-record-t ... -452366184

Spoiler alert: Ryan Fitzpatrick is not the future!

I'm not up on the details, but I think they are treading a fine line under the Federal Wiretap Act. State laws, too.

After looking at the definitions (who am I kidding, after looking at Wiki), I think recording the telephone call was a fairly clear violation of the federal Wiretap Act.

[govmentchedda]

What's the legality of this?

http://deadspin.com/pranksters-record-t ... -452366184

Spoiler alert: Ryan Fitzpatrick is not the future!

I'm not up on the details, but I think they are treading a fine line under the Federal Wiretap Act. State laws, too.

After looking at the definitions (who am I kidding, after looking at Wiki), I think recording the telephone call was a fairly clear violation of the federal Wiretap Act.

This definitely violates Florida law as well. These jokers are headed to pound you in the ass prison, with no conjugal visits.

[Gunpowder]

In Florida only one person has to be aware. Do the people taping it not count because they aren't in the conversation?

[Steve of phpBB]

In Florida only one person has to be aware. Do the people taping it not count because they aren't in the conversation?

Same with under the federal act.

But I think that since the communications were between two GMs, and neither of them consented to communications being recorded or disclosed, it was illegal.

I think the listening may actually have been okay, since the Deadspin guys really didn't do anything special other than call two people at the same time. But the recording is a separate act, as was the broadcast of that recording.

Then again, presumably this crossed the minds of the guys at Deadspin, and I would hope they would have asked a lawyer before they broadcast the recording. And hopefully that lawyer did more than spend five minutes on Wikipedia.

[Gunpowder]

Maybe one of them got a automated message that this call may be recorded at some point!

[govmentchedda]

In Florida only one person has to be aware. Do the people taping it not count because they aren't in the conversation?

Florida law is a "two-party" consent state. Both must be aware.

[temporassy]

I guess Nix wasn't joking about Fitzpatrick.

[Johnny Hotcakes]

According to this, in Florida, the category of offense would likely be a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in jail. Damn.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/pranksters ... 52321.html

[Steve of phpBB]

Ah. I was under the impression the guys from Deadspin actually did the recording.

According to the article, they are off the hook, though I'm not sure if I buy it.

[Test Ride the Sybian]

The Jets lost Shonn Greene? Fuck. Now the Jets really have no offense!