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]

We never know maybe someone will take over and change the name from SXOS to "Yet another switch CFW"

 

[th3joker]

For some strange reason, Astral Chain only works on SX OS for me (super xci). I can't get it to work on Atmosphere no matter what (all other games work). Would love to have both cfw available. The hatred against TX is strange. They didn't force anyone to buy their license. You can go free route (atm) or can have both like me. Anyway, not having options is bad. And what if atm devs stop updating it in the future? People here are so petty to celebrate the death of choices

Your a brainwashed puppet to think they dont purposly try to milk idiots to line their wallets.

 

[peteruk]

Haven't you read the newz, won't you? it says clearly ALL 3 are arrested in SEATTLE, includes Chen.

Indicted 3, arrested 2

 

[yadspi]

Which yeah, they could. But, Nintendo can't take the project down.

I meant that this news COULD scare them off...hope not

 

[Karones]

Headlines like the one from the Verge will confuse a lot of people and I love it

 

[GatoFiestero]

the irony that Gary's last name is Bowser.

 

[zoogie]

Looks like Bubba will be exploiting a vulnerability in their bums in federal prison

There will be penetration testing in the penitentiaries of our penal system indeed.

I'm going to hell for saying that

 

[musmanzafar]

Your a brainwashed puppet to think they dont purposly try to milk idiots to line their wallets.

What milking? You can play all the games on Atmosphere. Have better homebrew and emulatora support there. Everything is better on Atm. If someone chooses SX OS for convince, why it hurts you? They are not paying via your cc for another option

 

[aos10]

i hope someone leak thier code so thier OS will be ported.

 

[xxNathanxx]

Just chiming in to say go to hell, garyopa and go to hell, shitty enablers who allowed (and even encouraged) him to continue posting on this website, letting him put his bullshit front, right and center. Hopefully whoever takes the power vacuum left behind isn't as big of a conman.

On the other hand, this again shows that the US is exempt from international law, which is not nice news.

 

[shanefromoz]

God forbid you have to do a extra step to save $60 per game

What is the extra step

 

[HideoKojima]

Headlines like the one from the Verge will confuse a lot of people and I love it

It's called clickbait

 

[zoogie]

i hope someone leak thier code so thier OS will be ported.

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere

 

[KingVamp]

I'm sorry, I haven't been following at all, why do people hate this Gary guy?

 

[Flame]

There will be penetration testing in the penitentiaries of our penal system indeed.

I'm going to hell for saying that

they better protect they crack.

 

[ganons]

Next will be those pirate sites.

 

[Essasetic]

One thing I do find interesting is how Garyopa mentions the time he tried to get m4xw to cooperate with TX and how he "sent his work to a rival hacking group" when m4xw refused and worked with libretro instead.

 

[ChaosEternal]

I haven't seen anyone mention this, but the press release seems to confirm that TX was indeed behind Gateway all along.

From approximately June 2013 through August 2020, Team Xecuter used a variety of product names for its devices, such as the Gateway 3DS, the Stargate, the TrueBlue Mini, the Classic2Magic, and the SX line of devices that included the SX OS, the SX Pro, the SX Lite, and the SX Core.

 

[th3joker]

What is the extra step

to use a usb cable or a sd card reader.

 

[aos10]

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere

i know, but can i use flash drive using Atmosphere?
i don't even care about xci.
using usb cable is extra step, i don't want the hassle to hook my PC and other app to it.