Nintendo Switch hackers Team Xecuter leaders arrested, charged in federal indictment

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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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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.
At least Atmosphere ain't gonna get arrested, unlike your SXOS whereas no one is able to take over once they leave so meaning YOU'RE much more fucked!

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Anyone celebrating this is a total bootlicker.
most of Nintendo fans and Youtubers on Twitter were lol
 

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Well well well .... good for you Nintendo.
But if one falls others will take their place, is really all I can say.
This has always been the case in the past and probably will be so in the future.

Bit off-topic but worth to mention I personally think.

I do hope though Nintendo will do one thing; when a Nintendo Switch successor or Pro comes out ... that they will keep the Nintendo Switch Online ecosystem AND with it the game library you have bought. More parties are going that route and this will keep a lot of people from even wanting to hack their system all together.

See it as this; back in the day there was no Netflix, Hulu, Disney + and so ... SO people downloaded a heckin LOT. Now these options are here, sure there are still people who download stuff BUT it's a night and day difference when compared. Same will go with games if people don't have to dish out cash again for the eight time to get Zelda alttp , all stars and so on.
Follow leading examples in that regard like Steam.

Anyway just putting that out there (again)
 
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Original Switch SX OS owners already have thousands of games to play on theirs HDDs using SX OS recent exploits, they have plenty of games to play in the next years. I do not understand whats the fuss about,so what SX OS wont be supported anymore? Who cares lol. Take advantage of what yu already own, new Switch will b released next year thats why Nintendo wanted to take down SX OS team. : )
 

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Well well well .... good for you Nintendo.
But if one falls others will take their place, is really all I can say.
This has always been the case in the past and probably will be so in the future.

Bit off-topic but worth to mention I personally think.

I do hope though Nintendo will do one thing; when a Nintendo Switch successor or Pro comes out ... that they will keep the Nintendo Switch Online ecosystem AND with it the game library you have bought. More parties are going that route and this will keep a lot of people from even wanting to hack their system all together.

See it as this; back in the day there was no Netflix, Hulu, Disney + and so ... SO people downloaded a heckin LOT. Now these options are here, sure there are still people who download stuff BUT it's a night and day difference when compared. Same will go with games if people don't have to dish out cash again for the eight time to get Zelda alttp , all stars and so on.
Follow leading examples in that regard like Steam.

Anyway just putting that out there (again)

They will do that but only until a certain point. Say 2030 or so (probably earlier). But eventually some server will go down and some games will be unplayable. That's just how a ton of games/ecosystems die, it's a shame but that's the reality.
 
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you're not thinking about this logically. why would they continue if resellers are being sued? they're not going to continue at 0 profit. face it, sx os is over. saying that they'll be okay is defending your purchase, when deep down inside you know that we're right. there was supposed to be a reset glitch hack for the ps3. why didn't that come out? lawsuits. Marcan of fail0verflow has even stated that the ps3 would've been fully hacked within days due to nonrandom key on both main ps3 ldrs, but the lawsuits scared off the people knowledgeable enough to make it happen. I'm sorry that I have to be blunt, but this is the reality of things. sx os is dead.
 
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They will do that but only until a certain point. Say 2030 or so (probably earlier). But eventually some server will go down and some games will be unplayable. That's just how a ton of games/ecosystems die, it's a shame but that's the reality.

That part I would be totally fine with ... that is just logical. Keeping up server for online games is only needed if it still being played by masses.

BUT for non online / server bound titles, they should really make it a Nintendo Account thing.
Not like they did in the past with unique Virtual consoles ... which on changing to a new system ... mean absolutely nothing anymore.
 
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Can anyone explain to me why the matter of the perpetrators getting raped in prison or not is subject of discussion in this thread?

It's wishful thinking, they think that everyone gets turned on as much as they do.

no they haven't , stop posting misleading shit.
http://xecuter-sxos.com/en/
is still up in Uk

There was a court order last year and it's still in place for http://team-xecuter.com/

https://uk.pcmag.com/old-news/122514/uk-internet-providers-to-block-nintendo-switch-piracy-sites
"The websites that provide these download links are now blocked by users on Sky, BT, EE, Talktalk and Virgin Media's networks by the court order."

xecuter-sxos.com looks like it came after the original site was blocked, according to the DNS
Creation Date: 2020-01-23T15:50:26Z

I agree. Gary was just the front man

I'm pretty sure they'll give him a plea deal in exchange for testifying, although they may not need it if his bank accounts and computers have details about the others.
 
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Take advantage of what yu already own, new Switch will b released next year thats why Nintendo wanted to take down SX OS team. : )
Since you say it here again, i will also do:
You seem to have inside views of nintendo? Please enlighten us. As far as i know there might only be another Revision that enables 4K output (not rendering), thats all. They won't release a completely new Switch which needs new games and so on. the Switch right now is only 3 years old. Far too early for something new.
 

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The law system is rigged in favor of multi billion corps, and cheering them is pathetic and could lead to more prosecuting and harassing private citizens.
Look how Nintendo dodged every “ selling defective electronics” case and didn’t even bother to improve drifting joy cons issue.
 
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Have the law dudes gotten hold of the list with all licenced users? I would send them all e message telling people to stop using it...

I am curious if they will give an insight in how much money they made selling the licences etc.
 

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Is it worth picking up a second Switch and installing atmosphere? Found one with the right serial number, does it matter what firmware its on?
If it’s unpatched you can do what you like on any firmware.

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so my gf and I had a discussion, how likely is it that Nintendo will go after the SX OS User?
How would they do that?
 

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