Microsoft has been pulling this since the 80s... Bill Gates was personally responsible for destroying WordPerfect, dbase,etc competing office software.
As much as I love the fediverse, its control structures can't scale. If it ever became truly popular, bad actors would overwhelm it almost immediately.
Depends on the state, some require both parties to know the conversation is being recorded. "I'm recording this call" should be enough.
While it "should" be enough for a company "agent" to tell you the account is paid off. Courts tend to be pro business and there's probably language in the contract about mistakes...
Probably, when did the original Superman even come? 40's? Records were pretty lazy back then, especially in rural America.
I don't even know if being "illegal" was a thing, we might have still had an open immigration policy.