The United States Department of Justice has shared some news regarding Team-Xecuter, which doesn't appear to be a good sign for the company. Gary Bowser, known on GBAtemp as garyopa, Max Louarn, and Yuanning Chen have all been arrested in Seattle, Washington. The US Government classifies these men as "leaders of one of the world's most notorious videogame piracy groups", and will be facing a federal indictment charge, for the selling of illegal hardware that facilitates piracy.

“These defendants lined their pockets by stealing and selling the work of other video-game developers – even going so far as to make customers pay a licensing fee to play stolen games,” said U.S. Attorney Brian Moran for the Western District of Washington. “This conduct doesn’t just harm billion dollar companies, it hijacks the hard work of individuals working to advance in the video-game industry.”

The FBI has also been involved, with each defendant to be charged under 11 felony counts, ranging from wire fraud, trafficking circumvention devices, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. One of the defendants, Louarn, has not yet been extradited, though Bowser has, where he was seen in the court hearing that took place today.

In September 2020, Louarn and Bowser were arrested abroad in connection with the charges in this case. The United States will seek Louarn’s extradition to stand trial in the United States. Bowser was arrested and deported from the Dominican Republic, and appeared today in federal court, in New Jersey.

Each defendant is charged with 11 felony counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and to traffic in circumvention devices, trafficking in circumvention devices, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

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[NoNAND]

I'd hope not cuz I couldn't care less. I just wanted 40 likes

I liked SXOS. Very simple and smooth experience.

Same here!

SX os payloads being cross compatible with other dongle thingies is pretty neat

I can swiftly Switch between sx os and atmosphere within seconds. The rcmloader dongle is great!

 

[s2m]

Unfortunately nowadays common sense is replaced from political correction....Most of them started turning into organic portals, that's their problem, just avoid any conversation with them. They'll try to bring you down to their ignorance and stupidity and make you seem loser like them...Nothing worse than a toxic community....

Even TX seize to exist, new groups will eventually come up with better software. I refuse using atmosphere, reinx, their plugins and all the drama queens that scene has....I'll stay to 10.2, i have many great games to play even 11 or 20.1.0 come....

I have a feeling that most of bitterness comes from people that didn't want to accept that they had to pay for sxos stuff. Some of you remember how there was project to decrypt firmware and to create tool to generate licence keys for sxos without need to pay for dongle or paying to sellers. And how people were mad that it had built in extra features to make it bad decision (don't steal from thief move by TX).
Some people really don't know what is real fuel to any of mods/hacks/cracks. It's money or hatred. Even users of atmos, let's not kid ourselves here, play with patches to pirate stuff. But they didn't have to pay for it. And yeah, maybe there are few saints left, but they're very rare, especially here. Moreover except few developers of emulators, video players etc. most of software was made to or make piracy easy (save managers, memory injectors, cheat downloaders...).
NNO doesn't care about players. It's gigantic corporation with loads of IPs to protect (see what they did with PC port of mario64, browser mario, rom pages etc.). They wouldn't sell games for 40+ quids and push people to piracy if they would actually care about community. What is to celebrate then?

 

[smf]

They wouldn't sell games for 40+ quids and push people to piracy if they would actually care about community.

It's a business that employs people to make games, they have to pay those people.

Your post sounds like entitlement.

 

[manousos82003]

I have a feeling that most of bitterness comes from people that didn't want to accept that they had to pay for sxos stuff. Some of you remember how there was project to decrypt firmware and to create tool to generate licence keys for sxos without need to pay for dongle or paying to sellers. And how people were mad that it had built in extra features to make it bad decision (don't steal from thief move by TX).
Some people really don't know what is real fuel to any of mods/hacks/cracks. It's money or hatred. Even users of atmos, let's not kid ourselves here, play with patches to pirate stuff. But they didn't have to pay for it. And yeah, maybe there are few saints left, but they're very rare, especially here. Moreover except few developers of emulators, video players etc. most of software was made to or make piracy easy (save managers, memory injectors, cheat downloaders...).
NNO doesn't care about players. It's gigantic corporation with loads of IPs to protect (see what they did with PC port of mario64, browser mario, rom pages etc.). They wouldn't sell games for 40+ quids and push people to piracy if they would actually care about community. What is to celebrate then?

It's classic drama. Most forum members love it!

Even though i love Nintendo, i can't afford buying games :/ . I prefer paying for AIO solution (SX OS) to having many alternate loaders with plug ins which next day may never work again.

For me, as a boomer , all i want is everything to be neat. Install in SD, copy some games and boom (as Americans say). I'm bored searching the forums, githubs and others for solutions or resolve compatibility issues. For me, SX OS is (or was) a straightforward solution. And the most important, XCIs. Game, updates, DLCs all in one!

I think by the end of the year, a solution eventually will come up!

 

[s2m]

It's a business that employs people to make games, they have to pay those people.

Your post sounds like entitlement.

It's not entitlement when you pay more for one game than for one joy-con controller - also I don't feel bad for NNO because they refused to fix joy-con drift for many months now. As UK citizen I know I'm not treated as equal to american consumer for NNO. Some people, including me, are on third pair of joy-cons since NNO doesn't care about customers in UK. So go for it. Tell me more about my entitlement. We will laugh through tears.

 

[D34DL1N3R]

It's not entitlement when you pay more for one game than for one joy-con controller - also I don't feel bad for NNO because they refused to fix joy-con drift for many months now. As UK citizen I know I'm not treated as equal to american consumer for NNO. Some people, including me, are on third pair of joy-cons since NNO doesn't care about customers in UK. So go for it. Tell me more about my entitlement. We will laugh through tears.

Perhaps you should look up the definition of the word, because it is absolutely still entitlement. Just because you had joy-con problems doesn't mean you are entitled to cheaper games. I also don't know what the big deal with 40 quid is. People pay 20 for a Blu-ray movie that lasts MAYBE 2 hrs, but people have an issue with a different form of media that lasts many hours longer at a price that is relatively cheaper. If a game was 8 hrs long you should feel lucky it's not 80 quid.

 

[Etunts]

I personally think that nintendo will release a new console or switch pro i guess.because the 9th gen consoles started to release,nintendo said that to workers that make games 4k ready,and,they finally arrested the leaders of the tx and protect the new console to be cracked,Nintendo will generaly release&announce a lot of first party or AAA games for the old console when the new console will release in few months.And the Nintendo released a lot of first party&AAA games for switch in few months.

 

[Ev1l0rd]

I’m in the UK and have logged on fine, apart from Xecuter.Rocks Which has been taken down temporarily by the mods.

Use a VPN

I'm dutch so thanks for the unwarranted and unneeded advice fellas.

Could learn to bloody check the lil' country flag below my name...

 

[godreborn]

If prison is involved, I'm sure they won't be with murderers and rapists. It will probably be a low security prison with low level criminals. With that said, it's not likely they'd be raped.

 

[shanefromoz]

If prison is involved, I'm sure they won't be with murderers and rapists. It will probably be a low security prison with low level criminals. With that said, it's not likely they'd be raped.

Why would you even talk that crap here on a gaming forum.
Seriuosly some people are trolls and love to increase there post count.
I have been around for years and have seen the ups and downs but never wished prison on anyone

 

[Deleted member 534671]

I'm dutch so thanks for the unwarranted and unneeded advice fellas.

Could learn to bloody check the lil' country flag below my name...

Erm I was just saying I’m in the UK and have connected to the TX servers today with no problems, I couldn’t give a monkeys where you are!
I only quoted you because you posted “TX servers blocked by UK government” simply to inform you I AM in the UK and connected fine.
No need to get all pissy because you said something that I said wasn’t true.
The state of your defensive backtracking, I can hear your clogs rattling from here. Maybe you shouldn’t be posting stuff about what people in the UK can or can’t connect to if your not actually in the UK yourself.

 

[Captain_N]

You see here the problem is they are making money from it. Once you are making money off of it that's when the Nintendo Ninjas rape you. If they would have just made it free then i dont think Nintendo would have much to get them on. When you make free stuff you mostly get cease and desist letters. Not inditments.

 

[godreborn]

Why would you even talk that crap here on a gaming forum.
Seriuosly some people are trolls and love to increase there post count.
I have been around for years and have seen the ups and downs but never wished prison on anyone

I'm just suggesting what's more likely amidst the posts about them getting raped in prison.

 

[shanefromoz]

I'm just suggesting what's more likely amidst the posts about them getting raped in prison.

Still makes no sense.
This is a gaming forum.
The admin or mods need to get the thread back on topic.
I have had alot of dealings with Gary and he has been great to me.
I would not wish jail on him or any of the sxos crew.

 

[wurstpistole]

Can anyone explain to me why the matter of the perpetrators getting raped in prison or not is subject of discussion in this thread?

 

[RiPPERD]

this just goes to show that being greedy is what gets you caught!

Was chatting to someone few weeks back about how "the scene" has changed so much over the years... there was a time the "hackers" did this for either FUN or for BRAGGING RIGHTS... now its just all about money... now we either have arrests or bloody sell outs! Soon there will be no scene left or it will go further underground.

Not sure if any of you have realised but all the arrests for any piracy related stuff (games, films, iptv etc) the only reason these people are arrested is because they are CHARGING MONEY FOR A SERVICE... its pretty simple stop asking/forcing for money and ask for DONATIONS!

 

[sudeki300]

UK govt. has network banned TX sites.

no they haven't , stop posting misleading shit.

http://xecuter-sxos.com/en/

is still up in Uk

 

[ciaomao]

what if it was revealed that gary was also behind crown 3ds? in this case, and only in this case, jail would probably be justified

 

[sudeki300]

what if it was revealed that gary was also behind crown 3ds? in this case, and only in this case, jail would probably be justified

never heard of that one so it must have been bad.lol

 

[Meatloaf916]

Still makes no sense.
This is a gaming forum.
The admin or mods need to get the thread back on topic.
I have had alot of dealings with Gary and he has been great to me.
I would not wish jail on him or any of the sxos crew.

he wasn’t wishing prison on him, he just said that if it’s involved blank might happen. There’s lots of good people that end up in jail or prison because they made a mistake. Legality and morality are not synonymous. Your comment should be directed at the people who are actually celebrating this even though being arrested doesn’t mean anything. We will find out after trial if they even have to face anything. The trial date hasn’t even been set yet. So it’s all speculation.