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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[Tom Bombadildo]

you don't know what this means do you? if team Xecuter goes down what's stopping nintendo from going after atmosphere devs? or even Us?

Atmosphere isn't selling products with a sole intent of circumventing copyright protection like TX, Atmosphere devs will be just fine since creating CFW itself isn't illegal and they can't be arrested for it.

 

[MachRc]

holy crap. I hope SX OS still gets updated....

 

[whateverg1012]

RIP, It was going to happen eventually, hope no one who bought this sketchy stuff actually expected the company to last.

 

[kumikochan]

All I can say to this is "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, ........ HAHAHAHAHAHAHA "

 

[Bladexdsl]

that's it it's over nintendo have fucking won no more SX OS. game over man game over....
now everyone has to use crappy atmos and fuck around with patches, multiple programs and more bs just to get a fucking game to run. the plug and play days ARE OVER feel sorry for you all.

 

[linuxares]

@blawar are you okey?

 

[xIce101x]

Damn they had a good run though. I remember soldering a Xecuter 3CE in my original Xbox like 15 years ago. I still have that Xbox hooked up and working too. It was bound to happen sooner or later

 

[Tatsuna]

you don't know what this means do you? if team Xecuter goes down what's stopping nintendo from going after atmosphere devs? or even Us?

They were investigated and put on custody because they profited from their piracy-related jobs. I don't know what's to charge regarding Atmopshere or any other open-source, free unisgned code.

 

[Chains]

Are they going to arrest blawar too? Wasn't he working for them?

 

[Ev1l0rd]

Hahahahhahahaha.

Play with fire, get burned. Fucking idiots.

I'm estatic.

So.... @blawar - having second thoughts about cooperating with them? I think your ass could be on the line here too for having worked with them y'know...

 

[linuxares]

Please don't witch hunt Blawar. I legit, am worried about him.

 

[J-Machine]

what does this mean for the other stuff they made? if buddy is still in shenzen i'm guess the production of stuff is still gonna happen

 

[linuxares]

what does this mean for the other stuff they made? if buddy is still in shenzen i'm guess the production of stuff is still gonna happen

Why would he continue? He is exposed and his employer is gone.

 

[Deleted User]

this is probably why people hate having to pay a license or entry fee of some sort to hack their shit lol

 

[fadx]

TX probably pushed it too far when they introduced the copyrighted material in their paid product.

 

[Krude]

*spins quickly in a circle, then releases hold of the tail*

So long, Gary Bowser!

 

[Deleted User]

where were you when TX die?
i was at home, eating fries, when phone ring
hello?
TX is kil
no

 

[MachRc]

RIP SXOS,


hopefully someone will update their bootdat once we go past 10.2.0

 

[morvoran]

Well, damn. Guess I will have to look into this Atmosphere thing now.

 

[Zkajavier]

Wow, big hit to the Switch scene...

But you know, they were really making a lot of money out of Nintendo, it's not like it was not deserved.
Still, the hacking devices already exist, I doubt this is the end for V2 consoles.

The funny thing is their closed source software.... that's a dead end.