>Members of the multinational video game piracy group Team Xecuter are facing multiple felony charges, the US Attorney's Office of the Western District of Washington announced today. Max Louarn, Yuanning Chen, and Gary Bowser were all charged with 11 felony counts, including wire fraud, trafficking in circumvention devices, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
>"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."
Imagine being such a cuck you actually spend money on it. Lol
Jaxson Hughes
>Team Xecuter, known for releasing homebrew software for various video game systems including the Nintendo Switch and 3DS, is comprised of more than a dozen members around the world. The indictment alleges the group "at times cloaked its illegal activity with a purported desire to support gaming enthusiasts who wanted to design their own video games for noncommercial use. However, the overwhelming demand and use for the enterprise's devices was to play pirated video games."
Sebastian Rodriguez
stop sucking jew dick, cuck
Levi Turner
>“These defendants lined their pockets by stealing and selling the intellectual property of other video-game developers–even going so far as to make customers pay a licensing fee to play stolen games," US Attorney Brian Moran said. "This conduct doesn't just harm billion-dollar companies, it hijacks the hard work of individuals working to advance in the video-game industry."
Ryder Price
So long, Gary Bowser!
Josiah Scott
Shouldn't have tried to get money Also I shouldn't have to say it because it's been said a billion times before >Paying to pirate Lol
so did they do any of that or did they just copy paste their game
Luke Brooks
Exploiting a weakness in hardware is still Piracy. They should have reported the issue to Nintendo so they could fix it, not profit from it for personal gain.
>exploiting a weakness in hardware is still Piracy No it isn't, don't be fucking stupid. The only way in this case that SX is "Piracy" is because they were using and reproducing Nintendo's source code.
Evan Butler
I already hacked my switch and even if I didn't I could hack it without their shit.
Ryder Murphy
Those are the faggots who sold fucking licenses for their OS, which had code that would brick your Switch if it detected tempering. Well deserved.
Cameron Hill
Actually it is, as listed in Nintendo's Terms of Service. If you agree to it then you are literally commiting a criminal offence.
Colton Allen
FUCK I WAS GONNA SAY THIS
Daniel Taylor
ToS are toilet paper
Eli Wright
The clue is in the name "Service". The only thing they can do with a ToS is ban you from using their services.
Ian Watson
>most people buying this thing are using it to do an illegial act so that means thing itself should be illegial Where's the crackdown on bongs and needles then
Charles Davis
Actually this is a win for piratechads because imagine buying literally anything from a group that sells this kind of shit for loads of money while I can only get a paperclip jig for $1 or $0 if I make it myself
Juan Scott
The second I pay for a physical item it is mine and I can do whatever the fuck I want with it, if they want any power over the item once I have paid for it they need to put out a legal document before I spend my money It should be the same with digital sales but the marketplace is full of brainwashed idiots who think that secondhand physical sales are fine and expected but that being able to re-sell a digital item is any different even though they spent the same money for it. You bought it, you own it. Online purchases should not be treated as "rentals" or to use the doublespeak "subscriptions". Fuck all digital distribution networks.
Spend small fee and save big time on games and space with xci butthurt trannie
Landon Edwards
> they should have reported to Nintendo Excuse me? Reported to? What are Nintendo, the fucking police? Some sort of governing authority? It's literally a fucking Corp, and one thst had its starting business in gambling and hanafuda cards, literally started as part of organized crime.
You suck so much fucking corporate cock you think Nintendo is some kind of moral and legal authority? It's a company you fucking cuck.
Ryan Ward
Just think of all the unsold systems and games. The horror really never ends for them.
