Unreleased Eminem Music Sold for Bitcoin, FBI Charges Ex-Engineer

Years of unreleased music from rap superstar Eminem, stolen from under the artist’s nose by a former sound engineer, has been sold for Bitcoin on the internet, leading to federal charges, the FBI said Wednesday. Joseph Strange, 46, of Holly, Michigan, faces federal charges of criminal copyright infringement and interstate transportation of stolen goods. Strange worked as a sound engineer at Eminem’s Effigy recording studio in Ferndale, Michigan, from 2007 to 2021, a position that granted him access to password-protected hard drives containing a vast archive of the rapper’s work, both finished and unfinished. Federal prosecutors allege that Strange illicitly The post Unreleased Eminem Music Sold for Bitcoin, FBI Charges Ex-Engineer first appeared on The Shib Daily source: https://news.shib.io/2025/03/21/unreleased-eminem-music-sold-for-bitcoin-fbi-charges-ex-engineer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=unreleased-eminem-music-sold-for-bitcoin-fbi-charges-ex-engineer