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

shanefromoz · Oct 2, 2020

Kubas_inko said:
Where's @garyopa ?
He always liked doing TX news/announcements...

Are you being a troll

JuanMena · Oct 2, 2020

NO CP FOUND THIS TIME, HUH?

stanleyopar2000 · Oct 2, 2020

For profit piracy is a sinking ship. Remember that matey's

Tom Bombadildo · Oct 2, 2020

weatMod said:
but they are not , nowhere does it say SXOS is ONLY for the purpose of loading backups
SXOS has a homebrew menu it's not for the SOUL PURPOSE of loading backups

...k?

They weren't arrested for creating SX OS though, they were arrested for selling physical devices purely designed to circumvent copyright protection. AKA their modchips and flashcarts. Creating those devices and selling them are in fact illegal, and is the only reason they were arrested. Atmosphere devs haven't created any such device, they're not selling you anything, they simply created a free open source CFW, which is technically legal so long as you're not using any kind of copyrighted code in the creation of that CFW.

MadonnaProject · Oct 2, 2020

Shouldn't american feds be going after rapists and murderers? But then again these are americans, logic rarely strikes.

Though us brits aren't doing great at that lately.

[Truth] · Oct 2, 2020

musmanzafar said:
Well they didn't have any other options, do they?

Buy the game?!
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alepman90 · Oct 2, 2020

wait isn't Team Xecuter are Chinese group? and those who've been captured are nothing more than resellers and promoters

Kubas_inko · Oct 2, 2020

shanefromoz said:
Are you being a troll

Just being genuinely curious

the_randomizer · Oct 2, 2020

Rikua said:
Yet, it has existed since the dawn of modding. This place cracks me up, you do know that this is GBAtemp right? They used to advertise selling GBA and DS modchips lol Let's not forget DRM on games. Back in the day they had PHYSICAL devices you had to plug into your printer port to run said game.

Living in the past, totally productive

musmanzafar · Oct 2, 2020

[Truth] said:
Buy the game?!
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You are in the wrong place matey

SuperDan · Oct 2, 2020

Just Don't Drop The Soap Fella's .......

Flying Scotsman · Oct 2, 2020

alepman90 said:
wait isn't Team Xecuter are Chinese group? and those who've been captured are nothing more than resellers and promoters

No they're a multi-national team which is why some of them were arrested although good luck getting Chen indicted/extradited. Even without the tit-for-tat going on between the US and China, I doubt he'd be extradited anyway.

Because of this pretty much anyone who has worked for them in some capacity (either freelance for "features" or full time) will be targeted now as Ninty will put the case forward that they contributed to SX, and therefore have a hand in piracy which seems to be tacked on the side (the main indictment is the hardware mod chips and the secondary is SX).

Ev1l0rd · Oct 2, 2020

Kubas_inko said:
Where's @garyopa ?
He always liked doing TX news/announcements...

He's arrested lol.

Gary Bowser from the arrest warrant = Gary OPA.

I guess MaxConsole is going to croak too now?

mbakley78 · Oct 2, 2020

Bladexdsl said:
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.

Do you actually think the people behind TX are that stupid they are not going anywhere. And also sure they had a backup plan incase anything like this did happen I am sure there is a lot more to them then 2-3 people I am sure they have ghost people that lay super low that no one knows about cmon now just think about it.

zoogie · Oct 2, 2020

Ev1l0rd said:
He's arrested lol.

Gary Bowser from the arrest warrant = Gary OPA.

I guess MaxConsole is going to croak too now?

I think that was a joke.

alepman90 · Oct 2, 2020

lol is Gary bowser related to Doug Bowser? that's would be ironic

TunaKetchup · Oct 2, 2020

mbakley78 said:
Do you actually think the people behind TX are that stupid they are not going anywhere. And also sure they had a backup plan incase anything like this did happen I am sure there is a lot more to them then 2-3 people I am sure they have ghost people that lay super low that no one knows about cmon now just think about it.

Members of TX are in hiding now.

If I had any involvement with TX I'd be throwing away all my pcs and harddrives right about now.

Kioku · Oct 2, 2020

MadonnaProject said:
Shouldn't american feds be going after rapists and murderers? But then again these are americans, logic rarely strikes.

Though us brits aren't doing great at that lately.

Maybe someday we'll realize it's a people problem. Oh well, I digress.

Flame · Oct 2, 2020

mbakley78 said:
Do you actually think the people behind TX are that stupid they are not going anywhere. And also sure they had a backup plan incase anything like this did happen I am sure there is a lot more to them then 2-3 people I am sure they have ghost people that lay super low that no one knows about cmon now just think about it.

what backup plan? this isn't the Illuminati. its dead jim

Flying Scotsman · Oct 2, 2020

mbakley78 said:
Do you actually think the people behind TX are that stupid they are not going anywhere. And also sure they had a backup plan incase anything like this did happen I am sure there is a lot more to them then 2-3 people I am sure they have ghost people that lay super low that no one knows about cmon now just think about it.

Like paid cheats for games it's likely they hire freelance devs if and when they're needed. TX retains a copy of the source the devs work on but usually the freelance devs don't have permanent access to it (to prevent leaks etc).

It's likely the core TX team is 2 - 3 people, but those who do the actual heavy lifting are just freelance which gives the illusion they're bigger than they actually are. This is usually employed as a cost saving measure as selling paid cheats (and presumably CFW) has really tight margins.

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