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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[Hells Malice]

Looks like Bubba will be exploiting a vulnerability in their bums in federal prison

 

[LeyendaV]

Actually good news.

 

[fadx]

Bound to happen sooner or later. Was obvious Nintendo was getting more serious with the relentless shutting down of resellers.

 

[x65943]

Nintendo has been moving forward quickly with this stuff in the past few weeks

 

[Deleted User]

Team Xecuter used a variety of product names for its devices, such as the Gateway 3DS, the Stargate, the TrueBlue Mini, the Classic2Magic, and the SX line of devices that included the SX OS, the SX Pro, the SX Lite, and the SX Core

lmao. I guess rip team xecuter

 

[chrisrlink]

so now the team x is out of the picture wonder about atmos now?

 

[RomHam]

How will I hack my switch lite now

 

[chrisrlink]

you don't know what this means do you? if team Xecuter goes down what's stopping nintendo from going after atmosphere devs? or even Us?

 

[Veho]

, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. .

Can someone explain this one to us laymen?

 

[linuxares]

so now the team x is out of the picture wonder about atmos now?

“These arrests show that the department will hold accountable hackers who seek to commandeer and exploit the intellectual property of American companies for financial gain, no matter where they may be located.”

Maybe Department of Justice just gave them a free pass?

 

[TobiasAmaranth]

Uh oh. I think I'm gonna need a guide to xfer off of SX OS within a few months, huh?

 

[nero99]

so now the team x is out of the picture wonder about atmos now?

They’ll be next. I give it a month before we’re updated with a “so I got a C&D and a threat for jail time” just because it’s free and doesn’t enable piracy by itself does not mean it’s safe from Nintendo.

 

[linuxares]

Can someone explain this one to us laymen?

Using Gary's company called Oasis Pensive Abacutors to launder the money so they become "legal". Aka they look legit on paper.

 

[retrofan_k]

Maxconsole site is dead now too. Karma is a Bitch Gary and it fucked you now, enjoy your Jail time Bro...

 

[peteruk]

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

 

[Frexxos]

Thats a big big big oof! That hurts as a SX user :-(

So this will be probably the end of SX OS etc. ? Seems so?!

 

[TheZander]

Haven't these guys been through this before? 11 felonies aint shit.

 

[linuxares]

Thats a big big big oof! That hurts as a SX user :-(

So this will be probably the end of SX OS etc. ? Seems so?!

It is. TX is kill.

 

[Kioku]

Well then... Guess I'm running Atmos from here on in

This does suck for the V2 Mariko users with the chips installed. I've got a V1 Erista patched... Just hope I can continue to use it.