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What to Do About Fake Drake Songs

The New Yorker

On April 3, 2001, Alanis Morissette and Don Henley appeared before Congress in a bid to save the music industry. Henley, the drummer and a lead vocalist for the Eagles, was dressed in a pin-striped suit. Morissette, the Grammy Award-winning singer of "You Oughta Know," wore a red top and a purple ring. Also present was Hilary Rosen, the president and C.E.O. of the Recording Industry Association of America (R.I.A.A.); Shawn Fanning, the co-founder of Napster; Ken Berry, the president and C.E.O. of EMI Recorded Music; and Dianne Feinstein, the then sixty-seven-year-old senator from California. The Senate Judiciary Committee had called the hearing because online file sharing was understood to be threatening the viability of the entire music industry, and of the future of art in America. As the sole musicians to testify, Morissette and Henley might have chosen to echo the chorus of their record-industry colleagues, bemoaning piracy and praising the R.I.A.A.'s moves to stop it.