Former employee, former employee, who was previously employed by rapper Eminem, has just been accused of “infringing the copyright and interstate traffic of stolen goods.” The allegation comes after stolen music released in January this year and is allegedly illegally acquired and sold by 46-year-old Joseph Strange.
Federal prosecutors revealed the root of suspicion among Eminem’s studio employees, who suspected Strange’s misconduct. After discovering stolen music on the internet, the unnamed employee concluded that “they also found an image of the list of music he created but unreleased and realized that the image was taken directly from the hard drive,” according to a latest report from WXYZ Detroit.
Worse, the drive is password protected and has not been used for several years, so it is obviously a trusted employee. The report also explores the crime tactics, which reveals that strange music sold music to a man alias “Doja Rat” for $50,000. The evidence that the fee says is a conversation between Tipper and Doja Rat, as well as a log of records about file transfers, which dates until October 16, 2019 and January 16, 2020 – when files are accessed, and strangely still in the studio’s employees.
Therefore, the investigation also led to the discovery of handwritten lyric paper, VHS tapes with EM music, and even his personal notes. Not to mention Hard Drives has more than 12,000 audio files, including songs from EM and his collaborators, which the FBI agent also found during its January 28, 2025 operation.
