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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[HideoKojima]

GUESS LEECHES GOT WHAT THEY DESERVED Pepelaugh

They should really get a better VPN next time.

There's no such a thing as good VPN, VPN providers sell data and/or will do if there's a court order

 

[tpax]

People celebrating this are one of the reasons why we have all the bad shit going on in this world these days.
TX have been contributing so much to the CFW scene for so long, long before the majority of this forum's userbase were even in the making. This is COVID-19 level bad news.

 

[SSG Vegeta]

How will I hack my switch lite now

That's exactly what I'm thinking. Sx os had some cool apks

 

[Chains]

People celebrating this are f***ing morons and are one of the reasons why we have all the bad shit going on in this world these days.
TX have been contributing so much to the CFW scene for so long, long before the majority of this forum's userbase were even in the making. This is COVID-19 level bad news.

lol your avatar matches the tone of your post, perfectly!

 

[shanefromoz]

lol your avatar matches the tone of your post, perfectly!

Chains you are just a troll

 

[TunaKetchup]

That's exactly what I'm thinking.

Still SX OS

Even if it never gets updated again it still works for many firmswares and many many Nintendo games

 

[peteruk]

TorrentFreak reporting it now too

https://torrentfreak.com/us-indicts...iracy-group-team-xecuter-two-arrested-201002/

 

[linuxares]

People celebrating this are one of the reasons why we have all the bad shit going on in this world these days.
TX have been contributing so much to the CFW scene for so long, long before the majority of this forum's userbase were even in the making. This is COVID-19 level bad news.

Uhm no.. no one dies of SXOS, please don't make this political.

 

[Essasetic]

They’ll be next. I give it a month before we’re updated with a “so I got a C&D and a threat for jail time” just because it’s free and doesn’t enable piracy by itself does not mean it’s safe from Nintendo.

Also no, they can't do that to Atmosphere.

 

[swabbo]

Hope their jailbreaking knowledge helps them out of this

Don't think any of the Atmosphere devs have been to prison though, so they have nothing to copy from

 

[WaffleRaccoon]

What did Team Executor do wrong? I'm not going to defend them or anything but they've been doing Nintendo Console Modding for like years I think so what happened that got them arrested?

 

[Chains]

Chains you are just a troll

Not usually, its just funny to me seeing you all get emotional over this when this outcome was inevitable. Everyone with more brain cells than fingers knew its going to end like this.

 

[linuxares]

What did Team Executor do wrong? I'm not going to defend them or anything but they've been doing Nintendo Console Modding for like years I think so what happened that got them arrested?

TLDR; Selling pirate devices.

 

[ombus]

Welp the best cfw gone.. Now lets see when they hit atmos.

 

[shanefromoz]

Not usually, its just funny to me seeing you all get emotional over this when this outcome was inevitable. Everyone with more brain cells than fingers knew its going to end like this.

Im not getting emotional over anything.
I am sure the team will survive just with a different front man.
I am sure the team in China will provide updates

 

[linuxares]

Welp the best cfw gone.. Now lets see when they hit atmos.

They most likely won't. They would have sent a C&D ages ago if so.

 

[HideoKojima]

It's funny that this happened the same day Resident Evil 3 Remake for pc has been cracked...

 

[Chains]

Im not getting emotional over anything.
I am sure the team will survive just with a different front man.
I am sure the team in China will provide updates

Seems unlikely, but time will tell.

 

[J-Machine]

Then it's probably better just to change name and continue like nothing. I don't see that happning. Especially not since Tencent are selling Switches in China. Who are in control of Tencent? The CCP.

the ccp just acted like they invented the internet the other day, they've radically changed their laws to force them as the owners of any tech invented in the country, are known to often steal technology... they won't care. if it makes them money they won't care, they would gladly block nintendo again to keep their dwindling resource of USD form leaving the country as well in order to keep funding their belt and road initiative in order to financially force other countries into their favor. now that SMC has been sanctioned by USA they aren't gonna care how they get that money for sure

 

[godreborn]

the irony that Gary's last name is Bowser.