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It might've been a debugging feature that accidentally got shipped first with a copyrighted version, but then corrected to use some tune in the public domain.

They could update it via the firmware to, say, Never Gonna Give You Up.

You think they would have?

I don’t believe copyright violation is a felony, at least of one song; I was referring to the choice of melody.

Yup, definitely not a felony.

But I stand by my claim that Disney pursues copyright lawsuits harder than the government prosecutes some felonies.