MSNBC downloads pirated music?

You expect a fuck-up like this from the network that did a shitty splicing job on a Michelle Obama speech to try to change the speech's meaning.

In a segment about the film adaptation of 'Mamma Mia!' (a musical based on Abba songs), MSNBC used the song "Walking On Sunshine", apparently thinking the song was by Abba. Wrong, brainiacs, it was Katrina & the Waves.

Now, why would they think it was Abba? Because file sharing sites that offer unauthorized copies of the song often wrongly credit the song to Abba. Obviously that's where MSNBC got its copy from.

Clearly, a producer for the network wanted some Abba music for the piece, so they went on a file sharing site and downloaded a pirated copy of that song for free because it was mislabeled as being by Abba. How else could a mistake like that happen?

Now is the RIAA going to go after MSNBC for using pirated music, creating a rare wingnut-versus-wingnut death match? Or is this like how the insurance industry doesn't do anything to teen confinement facilities when they commit insurance fraud?

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