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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[Zangetsu276]

RIP SXOS updates. Guess I'm moving to atmosphere when the next FW update rolls out.

 

[RichardTheKing]

Yet another reason why launch-model Switches are still king, along with the ability to hook them up to TVs and have a proper resolution and sound quality.

So now both Kosmos and SX OS are effectively kaput...that's unfortunate; it's now all down to Atmosphere.

 

[th3joker]

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

You can lead a horse to water but u cant convince the horse is a horse. This is why cults exist. People like to be told how to think. Your one of those people.

 

[harryoke]

Just thought I'd pop in.. I always knew this would happen that's why I retired a few years ago. @Bubba omg.. you might have to get a real job now... incoming New CFW for Gary in prison Cock Forced Within ... his anus

 

[peteruk]

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.
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that line doesn't look good at all

 

[shanefromoz]

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.

I believe you can install over usb using tinfoil and can also install xci files

 

[masagrator]

i know, but can i use flash drive using Atmosphere?

You can't. There is fsp-usb, but it needs special treatment with each new breaking update for Atmosphere-libs and homebrew needs to implement it. So that's why is not public, only for test purposes and people who knows what they are doing.

 

[Essasetic]

that line doesn't look good at all

Hmm, yeah I was thinking about that. Doesn't really cast a positive light on m4xw if what Gary is saying is true.

 

[aos10]

I believe you can install over usb using tinfoil and can also install xci files

i know this but this is still a hassle, i need to hook up my PC to my switch using USB cable and run the app on both sides and hope it will works.
some times it won't work.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

I believe you can install over usb using tinfoil and can also install xci files

Installing xci defeats the entire point of xci

 

[th3joker]

Hmm, yeah I was thinking about that. Doesn't really cast a positive light on m4xw if what Gary is saying is true.

Lol yall sad that gary got fucked? And sxos is going to shit? Can i drink your tears? They are the sweetest when fresh

 

[chrisrlink]

Hmm, yeah I was thinking about that. Doesn't really cast a positive light on m4xw if what Gary is saying is true.

nah i feel he's lying to throw him under the bus cause he said no it would be easy to lie in hopes of getting a lighter sentance even if the info isn't true

 

[Bimmel]

Fuck. This is really bad.

I hope there comes a new method to run xci without install.

 

[PalomPorom]

Can Nintendo go after soft mod devs or is it only when they make money off of exploits and hacks?

Sent from my toaster running Rebug

 

[musmanzafar]

Lol yall sad that gary got fucked? And sxos is going to shit? Can i drink your tears? They are the sweetest when fresh

Are you really that thick or just trying really hard to be? You seem absolutely unreal. Hating people for what they purchase. You must hate all of the population then because people don't like to live by your rules obviously

 

[GatoFiestero]

If you're celebrating or making fun of this, you are a scum. This is gonna be a huge impact for the CFW scene. TX may have taken bad choices in the past, but you can't deny they have contributed for so long to the community. even if you don't support them, everyone loses with this situation.

I've always thought that stealing Atmosphere software and making SX OS shit to make money out of it is being motherfuckers.
I'll tell you I'm not happy, but everyone knew it was a matter of time. The same are the idiots who charge access to get roms.

Don't be too smart with your pseudo-morals dude.

 

[Essasetic]

Lol yall sad that gary got fucked? And sxos is going to shit? Can i drink your tears? They are the sweetest when fresh

Is this directed at me? If so, then no. I don't agree with the ethics of TX and they definitely had it coming. I also dislike Garyopa. There's no denying they made advancements in some areas of the scene but they got too comfortable for their own good.

nah i feel he's lying to throw him under the bus cause he said no it would be easy to lie in hopes of getting a lighter sentance even if the info isn't true

Yeah, that's most likely what he's done. Likely trying to get a plea bargain by ratting out everyone he's worked with and throwing everyone else under to make himself look as good as possible.

 

[nWo]

It's okay to see this as a company hunting for their copyrighted material and all that drama, it's legal, I can understand that. But to be celebrating the fact that some people got canned? That is really low.

 

[the_randomizer]

Maybe they should've invested time into making permanent and easy to install softmods

 

[Rikua]

While it was a good ride, this was inevitable, as is the case with 90% of all modchip designers/resellers. Everyone can hate as much as they want. These are the very same people who owned an r4 for DS and buy stuff like the Everdrive and still find a way to try and feel superior because they are "Free" pirates. The important thing to take from this is that everyone just lost a team to find a potential future software exploit/hardware exploit on Next-gen hardware, this includes Switch Pro.