From YouTube to the blockchain: how music and tech are colliding in 2016

Music companies want to work with tech startups, not sue or squeeze them for all they’re worth. But will they still be left in the hands of big guns such as Apple and Google?

The music industry and technology? To borrow Facebook’s lingo, the relationship is complicated.

File-sharing service Napster’s emergence in 1999 was the cue for more than a decade of fear, loathing and ill-fated decisions from major music companies, and perceptions of a gulf between the worlds of music and tech that linger to this day.