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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it's not being sold though
the chip is sold to you the software does not come with it
you have to get it it's not in th ebox or on the chip

The SX key is sold to you which unlocks this functionality. That's all the court needs to know to refer to SX as a "paid piracy enabler."

This lawsuit is primarily targeting the chips themselves as they bypass hardware restrictions to prevent piracy. SX has been tacked on the side so they can take down both with 1 lawsuit.
 
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You can still get free games. Just takes a little more work.

Scalp a bunch of Xbox's and PS5's - then you can have any console free and all the games you want. Merry Christmas!
 

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They were charging people for a license to piracy. They are beyond f****ed. Atmosphere is not the same thing, it blows my mind people here still don't understand that.
 
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also should I mention atmosphere doesn't enable piracy? On it's own, no it doesn't enable piracy. You still have to download sign patches separately. And so they can't really tackle atmosphere.
 

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Ironically this thread contains more homophobia than any other and it is approved by all sides.:teach:

Everything is homophobia apparently for today's stupid society.

Before, it meant hating (literally) people for their sexual preference.
Now to make a joke is to hate people.

But the most stupid thing is that all the subjects want to distort them with that shit. Use your brains to argue and stop thinking about that fucking ideology shit once and for all.

On every damn topic you go on there are five retarded people arguing about homophobia (or so they think).
 

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They were charging people for a license to piracy. They are beyond f****ed. Atmosphere is not the same thing, it blows my mind people here still don't understand that.
and you believe that atmosphere has done how to be able to be launched on your switch which is prohibited is any modification, even minor, of a product to make it something other than its basic use so atmo is also illegal.Moreover here you get the sigpatch which is illegal if we follow the logic of the hacking facilitation so gbatemp is illegal since it has posts give atmo sigpatches

you can try to justify its illegality in both cases so

I will even go further any modification made by a person other than the developer of the product / software whatever it is is illegal except consent to last explicit therefore here modification of your switch

the launch of an unauthorized code or no produced by nintendo even the homebrew are illegal because they are in no way explicitly authorized to be used

sorry for english i use google translate
 
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and you believe that atmosphere has done how to be able to be launched on your switch which is prohibited is any modification, even minor, of a product to make it something other than its basic use so atmo is also illegal.Moreover here you get the sigpatch which is illegal if we follow the logic of the hacking facilitation so gbatemp is illegal since it has posts give atmo sigpatches

you can try to justify its illegality in both cases so

I will even go further any modification made by a person other than the developer of the product / software whatever it is is illegal except consent to last explicit therefore here modification of your switch

the launch of an unauthorized code or no produced by nintendo even the homebrew are illegal because they are in no way explicitly authorized to be used

sorry for english i use google translate

Atmos is totally legal.

It is impossible for any court in any country to condemn the Atmosphere project, or delete the repository where it is located.

What is this the noobs party?
 
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