A former sound engineer for the award-winning rapper Eminem-Sch even known as Marshall Mathers-Wurde on Wednesday due to theft of the unpublished music of the rapper and the sale for Bitcoin. Federal prosecutor.
The 46 -year -old Joseph Strange allegedly sold 25 of Eminem’s unfinished songs to a Canadian man whom he met on the Internet in exchange for Bitcoin worth 50,000 US dollars. According to A Criminal complaint Submitted to Michigan on Wednesday. The public prosecutor claims that Strange stole the songs from the Effigy, Eminem’s music studio in Michigan, and that Strange worked for Eminem between 2007 and 2021.
“It is important for people to understand that a criminal complaint is only a number of allegations signed by a prosecutor and made known by the press release” Assets. “We were not even in a courtroom, let alone test the allegations of a judge or a jury. These allegations belong here.”
A long -time spokesman for Eminem told Assets“The considerable damage caused by a trustworthy employee on Eminem’s artistic heritage and creative integrity cannot be overestimated, let alone the enormous financial losses of the many creators and employees who earn protection for their decades of work.”
According to the complaint, Strange will be accused of criminal violations of a copyright and the stopover of stolen goods, after the rappers’ employees have discovered that some of the unpublished music of Eminem were available on online platforms such as YouTube and Reddit and triggered an FBI examination.
According to witnesses who were asked in the complaint, Strange is supposedly “strongly involved” with Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining and would only accept the payment for music in cryptocurrency.
The strange is up to five years in prison and a fine of up to 250,000 US dollars if it is convicted of criminal copyright infringement. He will be sentenced to a maximum punishment of up to 10 years in prison if it is convicted of the indictment of the intermediate transport of stolen goods.
In 2002 a number of tracks on his “The Eminem showThe album was sold online and on the street of pirates before the intended publication date and forced the rapper to improve the publication of the album in order to minimize financial losses.
This story was originally on Fortune.com
