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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.”
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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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Gary opa was the biggest scumbag in every scene he put his nose into. Maxconsole was a great site till he fucked it over.i rember all the billshit he did in the psp scene. He was the reason trojan brickers were put in place of dark alex psp cfw. He is the guy who put drm on comunity found exploits. He is the guy who burns a house from inside down and just moves to a new one aka kills a scene. Many people will cherish knowing he will be cornholed for atleast 10 years. Fuck you gary rip to his anus
 
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I have an SXOS, wtf do I do now? is there some way to keep playing Switch games on higher firmware without the SX getting updates?

Fuck Nintendo btw, never buying a nintendo product, if I do, it's used.
 
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peteruk said:
Good luck getting Chen extradited from Shenzhen

I don't use the TX products and I know what they do has divided opinion massively in the community but I hate seeing people getting locked up for this kind of shit

Sad times and I really hope nobody who dislikes them comes out and glorifies these actions
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Haven't you read the newz, won't you? it says clearly ALL 3 are arrested in SEATTLE, includes Chen.
 
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Gary opa was the biggest scumbag in every scene he put his nose into. Maxconsole was a great site till he fucked it over.i rember all the billshit he did in the psp scene. He was the reason trojan brickers were put in place of dark alex psp cfw. He is the guy who put drm on comunity found exploits. He is the guy who burns a house from inside down and just moves to a new one aka kills a scene. Many people will cherish knowing he will be cornholed for atleast 10 years. Fuck you gary rip to his anus
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Think he might've been behind true blue on the ps3 as well.
 
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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
 
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I do have a question that spawned from this: will there be a free/open-source hardware version of the modchip that can be used for more legitimate purposes? Otherwise, there may not be another way for a while for patched units and Switch Lites.
 
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