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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[DarknessPlay3r]

https://torrentfreak.com/images/louarn_et_al_indictment_0.pdf

EDIT: I would say start a Page 18. A lot of the top is just "what TX is"

Thanks for posting this. I've enjoyed seeing all the fanboys crying the sky is falling and it's over. Obviously not one of them read this...

Page 37, the team ...... keep the devs happy... It's almost like every reporting done on this was fed the same bias story to tell the tale of how a whole piracy group was taken away forever and now piracy on the switch is dead ooohhh nooooooo....

This will have hurt distribution (probably the whole point) but I won't be surprised if development continues.

 

[cashboxz01]

at the very least they should open source the project anonymously. and despite how much tx is hated on this forum, there's no alternative for mariko or lite other than sx core/lite and even if sx os is stolen, it's still preferred by people who don't like tinkering with various patches.

 

[gregory-samba]

I think you don't realize dev-provided nnSdk is included with every application.
Making it fair grounds to reverse engineer and reimplement and making it legally obtainable.
Also a lot of the functionality implemented in Libnx and Libstratosphere isn't present in the sdk provided to developers.

Except the official SDK is being used to create the homebrew SDK. If you do some searching around you'll see the crew that deals with these dekkitpro/devkitppc and various libs used to admit they simply used the stolen sdk's. That's especially true for Wintermute one of the main devs. After the big busts in the Wii scene they stopped publicly running their mouths and now it would be like pulling teeth to get them to admit they use stolen IP to create these tools. However, that's exactly what's happening. If you think all these devs don't pirate you're delusional.

 

[Maykon Correia]

What one of the members of the TX forum answered about support and licensing questions

 

[danilozz]

well i just hacked it with xecuter

 

[harryoke]

Can we start a fund me page for these guys to hire best law firm for helping giving us a control over our hardware? Seriously, those didn’t promote for piracy and never implicate. A lot of people backup their games so the don’t have to carry them everywhere or in case they lose them or damage them. Nintendo is being evil lately. They’re acting like anti-consumer and never admit the joy con drift issue or even fix it. I hope TX get a release as soon as possible.

Well you obviously dont know them. They dont need a fund me page they have more money than common sense... and they will need every penny to pay for protection inside federal prison. I heard Garyopa has a new cellmate a MR Ben Dover.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

Nintendo are being violent oppressors.

 

[Izen]

So Long Gary Bowser

This is just Nintendo tying up loose ends after Shindou in 3D All-Stars.

 

[Pokemon_Tea_Sea_Jee]

who else thinks nintendo is going tough because of gigaleaks?

 

[leerpsp]

I was going to buy sx os for my other switch but I think I'm not going to do that any time soon seeing as how this has happend I don't think anything is set in stone yet on if we will see more updates or not and what if it go's open source then i'm out the money I spent on a key so i'll hold off tell i see this play out.

 

[Deleted User]

I was going to buy sx os for my other switch but I think I'm not going to do that any time soon seeing as how this has happend I don't think anything is set in stone yet on if we will see more updates or not and what if it go's open source then i'm out the money I spent on a key so i'll hold off tell i see this play out.

Unless you were wanting to use an external hard drive for games you don't need sx os. Just use atmosphere.

 

[ZachyCatGames]

Except the official SDK is being used to create the homebrew SDK. If you do some searching around you'll see the crew that deals with these dekkitpro/devkitppc and various libs used to admit they simply used the stolen sdk's. That's especially true for Wintermute one of the main devs. After the big busts in the Wii scene they stopped publicly running their mouths and now it would be like pulling teeth to get them to admit they use stolen IP to create these tools. However, that's exactly what's happening. If you think all these devs don't pirate you're delusional.

wat.
As I said, nnSdk is included in every application and can very very easily be legally obtained, reversing/reimplementing it is fair game.
And they don't straight up distribute any sdk components, all devkitpro libs/compilers are open source (also you're just ignoring things like the fact that Nintendo uses clang, but dkp uses gcc).
And again, many of the things in libnx/libstratosphere do not exists at all in dev nnSdk (not that it matters since REing nnSdk is fine).

Edit: Also there's literally nothing in the Sdk that would be of any use lol

 

[leerpsp]

Unless you were wanting to use an external hard drive for games you don't need sx os. Just use atmosphere.

that is what I was wanting it for that and cart loading so i don't have to install it on the system or sd cards.

 

[Deleted User]

Yeah that's what I bought sx os for almost 2 years ago I eventually got a 512 gb sd card but filled that up so I needed an external to add more games. But I recently got a gaming PC and most non-Nintendo Switch games are on PC with better framerates and everything so I don't even need the external anymore and I've just switched to atmosphere.

 

[linuxares]

Thanks for posting this. I've enjoyed seeing all the fanboys crying the sky is falling and it's over. Obviously not one of them read this...

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Page 37, the team ...... keep the devs happy... It's almost like every reporting done on this was fed the same bias story to tell the tale of how a whole piracy group was taken away forever and now piracy on the switch is dead ooohhh nooooooo....

This will have hurt distribution (probably the whole point) but I won't be surprised if development continues.

Well Max was the money bag. So it's really up in the air. They've done one hell of a job the feds so it wouldn't be too surprising to hear more arrests coming. As it seems they got access to to the it internal channels.

 

[Bladexdsl]

fuck nintapple

 

[leerpsp]

Yeah that's what I bought sx os for almost 2 years ago I eventually got a 512 gb sd card but filled that up so I needed an external to add more games. But I recently got a gaming PC and most non-Nintendo Switch games are on PC with better framerates and everything so I don't even need the external anymore and I've just switched to atmosphere.

iv got atmos installed and a 512 gb sd card just like how sxos works and looks, I had it back when it 1st come out then switched to atmos after i got another switch, As for pc gaming Iv got an over kill system!

 

[izy]

Unless you were wanting to use an external hard drive for games you don't need sx os. Just use atmosphere.

say that to mariko and lite owners

 

[Jayro]

I love how one of them was named Bowser

Take away the R, and he's just Gay Bowser.

 

[raxadian]

I knew this was gonna happen, remember that whole Playstation emulator on the Dreamcast deal?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!