Napster’s emergence at the turn of the Millennium was the catalyst for perhaps the most disruptive period in the history of the recorded music business.

The file-sharing platform attacked a revenue-rich sector like an unforgiving swarm of locusts. But true evolution never comes without casualties; it’s hard to argue against the idea that Napster modernised an industry becoming far too set in its ways.

Further proof: one of the execs behind Napster’s creation, Sean Parker, has ended up at a ...