Last year saw the arrest of two members of Team Xecuter, the hacking group behind the infamous SX OS. MaxConsole administrator and GBAtemp user GaryOPA was a part of that, and was extradited from Canada to the United States, where he would face charges. While he initially claimed he was innocent, the opposing prosecution did not accept the defense of SX OS merely allowing Nintendo Switch users to play homebrew software, and asserted that the main goal of Team Xecuter's exploit was to play pirated copies of games.

Faced with 11 felony counts, Bowser has just pleaded guilty to two of them: trafficking in circumvention devices and conspiracy to circumvent technological measures. According to the court, Team Xecuter has caused an estimated number between $65 million to $150 million in losses to video game companies.

This means that Bowser will not have to go to trial, with the plea deal also waiving the other 9 criminal charges. Despite that, he still may face prison time, and as part of the deal, has agreed to pay Nintendo for restitution, to the tune of $4.5 million. Bowser will also have to consent to the destruction or give up the technology seized from his home during his arrest, which includes around 30TB of hard drives, micro SDs, and flash drives, along with laptops, phones, modchips, and hacked game consoles.

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[Bladexdsl]

if you actually pay for media (music, movies, etc.) you are supporting pedophilia , terrorism and the removal of your own freedoms

I'm a true pirate and I have never read anything more fucking stupid in my whole life!

 

[NeroAngelo]

"Team Xecuter has caused an estimated number between $65 million to $150 million in losses to video game companies."

I'd like to think karma is biting the TX team in the ass, but how in the hell did Ninty lawyers reach that number? did they pull it out of their asses?

 

[smf]

Getting drunk has been proven to cause impairment. Piracy has not been proven to damage a company. Not a good comparison.

It's a great analogy as piracy has been proven to impact sales https://corsearch.com/does-piracy-impact-sales-a-look-at-the-data/

I'd like to think karma is biting the TX team in the ass, but how in the hell did Ninty lawyers reach that number? did they pull it out of their asses?

They said it was an estimate. They will have made assumptions to reach it.

I would be interested in how they calculated it, but it's kinda pointless in terms of the court as everyone involved is fully aware that it's an estimate.

Backup copies are covered under Section 117 of US Copyright Law. The DMCA prohibits bypassing circumvention of technological measures for unauthorized copies. Ive always interpreted this personally as legitimate backups ARE authorized by federal law so unless youre actually pirating games no crime has been committed. Im also not a lawyer or legal expert nor do I pretend to be.

https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-digital.html#:~:text=Under section 117, you or,the original copy, once the

You can backup the software, but DMCA prevents modifications of consoles even to play legitimate backups.

However, DMCA only covers distributing the modification & not applying it (mainly because if you're a private citizen doing it for yourself then they can't ever know and if they could find out then the courts would be full of cases).

It doesn't change TX position whether you play backups of your originals, or downloaded files from the internet.

Let's face it. You could fit all the people who bought SXOS to play legitimate backups, in one room.

no scum have been brought to justice here, the scum are Nintendo and it's lawyers lets be real whether used for homebrew, piracy,a media centre, linux box etc..

When are you going to start being real? Who bought SXOS to use linux or a media centre?

Which is why the law makers need to wipe that restriction off the DMCA and make a new law that prohibits the reinstatement of said restriction!

That isn't how laws work.
And why would they?

But the core and lite themselves don't actually do anything beyond put the console in a state which allows it to accept a custom payload.

That is enough to be illegal, because they know that the people who have any kind of legitimate reason to do that are statistical noise compared to the pirates.

Unless they did visits to check all the SXOS customers were still using it for legitimate reasons, then banning it is their only option.

yes it is

No, it's not. You disagree with it.

To say it's fraudulent is just delusional. Where is the fraud?

How do you indirectly steal code and what would Atmosphere have?

You disassemble it and then write something equivalent. That creates a clear copyright violation.

Which re3 will become very aware of soon.

 

[subcon959]

Wtf is with spamming the crap out of the thread instead of editing posts?

 

[weatMod]

No, it's not. You disagree with it.

To say it's fraudulent is just delusional. Where is the fraud?

it's called bribery

 

[Kopimist]

To all the people claiming Team Xecuter stole code from Atmosphere was this ever proven? Im curious to know, I hear a lot of people claiming it but was it ever actually proven? The only way to know for certain would be to disassemble SX OS and to my knowledge thats never been done. Correct me if I'm wrong however. If it has been proven id like to see the proof out of pure curiosity. If someone could point me in the right direction. It would be much appreciated.

 

[The Catboy]

To all the people claiming Team Xecuter stole code from Atmosphere was this ever proven? Im curious to know, I hear a lot of people claiming it but was it ever actually proven? The only way to know for certain would be to disassemble SX OS and to my knowledge thats never been done. Correct me if I'm wrong however. If it has been proven id like to see the proof out of pure curiosity. If someone could point me in the right direction. It would be much appreciated.

This has been proven

There have been several other issues noted where SXOS was found to share many of the issues found in beta versions of Atmosphere, unfortunately, I can't seem to find those tweets. One of the reasons SXOS started doing "beta" versions was because they pumped out 3 broken updates due to the code being based on unstable Atmosphere code.

 

[secti8n]

Members of gbatemp
where is the oldskool hacking of boot.dat with sx os
Denuvo cracked by EMPRESS,RAZOR,HOODLUM,PLAZA(CODEX) AND SO ON AND SO ON
WE HAVE C.O.R.E for keygen and hacking when you start to learn,
that we have so much GROUPS for hacking and cracking that when they put there minds together
and come with a more better solution for this problem.
Boot.dat (okay xci loading,usb hard disk loading, are they all scared of nintendo.

 

[The Catboy]

Members of gbatemp
where is the oldskool hacking of boot.dat with sx os
Denuvo cracked by EMPRESS,RAZOR,HOODLUM,PLAZA(CODEX) AND SO ON AND SO ON
WE HAVE C.O.R.E for keygen and hacking when you start to learn,
that we have so much GROUPS for hacking and cracking that when they put there minds together
and come with a more better solution for this problem.
Boot.dat (okay xci loading,usb hard disk loading, are they all scared of nintendo.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/hack-sxos.582831/
You're welcome

 

[Kioku]

To all the people claiming Team Xecuter stole code from Atmosphere was this ever proven? Im curious to know, I hear a lot of people claiming it but was it ever actually proven? The only way to know for certain would be to disassemble SX OS and to my knowledge thats never been done. Correct me if I'm wrong however. If it has been proven id like to see the proof out of pure curiosity. If someone could point me in the right direction. It would be much appreciated.

You're coming in way too late to challenge this notion.

 

[Kopimist]

This has been proven

There have been several other issues noted where SXOS was found to share many of the issues found in beta versions of Atmosphere, unfortunately, I can't seem to find those tweets. One of the reasons SXOS started doing "beta" versions was because they pumped out 3 broken updates due to the code being based on unstable Atmosphere code.

Thank you for this.

 

[Kopimist]

You're coming in way too late to challenge this notion.

I honestly wasn't trying to challenge it, was just curious if it had been proven and it has

 

[smf]

it's called bribery

bribery is illegal, where is your proof?

Wtf is with spamming the crap out of the thread instead of editing posts?

once you have posted then you can't quote another post without it creating a new post. The board used to then merge them.

 

[smf]

I can't find out how to delete posts either, this new forum is shite.

 

[AaronDee]

damn i never used SX OS but wow that sucks

 

[AchakClaw]

So long, Ga(r)y Bowser!

Nice one XD

 

[Pippin666]

That bastard better go to prison.

Pip'

 

[Crazynoob458]

what cancer did i read

 

[dude1]

They have the legal right to do it because almost everyone hacking consoles, is doing it purely to pirate games.

I'd say that kinda gives them a moral right to do it.

I'm not entirely sure why it bothers anyone.

theres no data to prove that almost everyone hacking consoles, is doing it purely to pirate games.
even if I granted that as 100% fact, people have the right to do with there porperty as they see fit.
if police want to try to prove and arrest individual pirates go ahead but the argument everyone uses X for X is the same argument as "almost everyone with guns, knives etc. is doing it purely to commit crimes."

just cause some people break the law with some tool doesnt justify taking away the rights of people who haven't yet with said tool.

them stealing my right to use my property as I see fit against my will gives me and others like me the moral superiority in this regard, unless you don't believe in property rights at all.

it bothers anyone who believes in property rights, heck they get mad about console hacking, piracy, emulation for the same reason, they also believe in property rights.
the disagreement is where theres stop and ours begin, but they constantly want to have their cake and eat it too.

 

[smf]

it bothers anyone who believes in property rights, heck they get mad about console hacking, piracy, emulation for the same reason, they also believe in property rights.
the disagreement is where theres stop and ours begin, but they constantly want to have their cake and eat it too.

No, they want you to stop pirating games.

Emulation is almost always piracy too.