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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"The three indicted members are just a minority of the total group. According to the US authorities, there are more than a dozen Team-Xecuter members scattered around the world. These members help to code and create the Nintendo hacks, but they are also suspected of being involved in the production and sale of these devices."

They might not be dead, might be just a setback, time will tell.

They have a huge customer base so it is likely one or a few of the other members will simply take over and carry it on after a quiet period while the dust settles
 

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I just downloaded the latest sxos and nothing has happened.

Excuse me a second, someone's knocking at the door. I'm not expecting anybody.....
yep i think this is not that big of a deal like how we think.. pages still up.. both sxos and xcuter team page too.. forum etc.
 

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"purely designed to circumvent copyright protection"
again no , TX didn't do anything illegal
those chips are NOT "PURELY DESIGNED TO CIRCUMVENT COPYRIGHT PROTECTION"
they have other purposes you can load linux you can load Android ,they can enable homebrew, same for most of the flashcards
by that logic CD DVD BR burners should be illegal too because you can use them to make copies of copyrighted music,movies,software
SX OS has Nintendo SDK code in it for rom loading. That's illegal.
 

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"The three indicted members are just a minority of the total group. According to the US authorities, there are more than a dozen Team-Xecuter members scattered around the world. These members help to code and create the Nintendo hacks, but they are also suspected of being involved in the production and sale of these devices."

They might not be dead, might be just a setback, time will tell.

They have a huge customer base so it is likely one or a few of the other members will simply take over and carry it on after a quiet period while the dust settles
I'm sure they meant the jig sellers lol
 

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No. Firmware support is questionable as the sxos site is still up

thx for your quick response.
but should this be an issue? can't i use any other CFW? i've only read that it does not work on the mariko chip but i have the old switch (which is unfortunately not hackable via SX Pro) but i could be wrong.. which i am probably lul

Bought mine 3 days ago and it's on the way.. that f** sucks
 
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thx for your quick response.
but should this be an issue? can't i use any other CFW? i've only read that it does not work on the mariko chip but i have the old switch (which is unfortunately not hackable via SX Pro)

Bought mine 3 days ago and it's on the way.. that f** sucks
If you mean cfw on markio just hope other tx members collect back up or reswitched lets out the markio update when they finish it
 
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So maybe this is a bad time to ask....but can we expect Flycast on SX OS any time soon?
 

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