Nintendo is suing a Switch hacker named Gary Bowser.
As reported by Polygon, Nintendo of America has filed a lawsuit against the 51-year-old Canadian national Bowser, who is a suspected member of the Switch creators Team Xecuter.
That’s right – Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser is suing a Nintendo hacker named Gary Bowser. This is the battle of the Bowsers – in court.
In October, the U.S. government issued several federal charges against Bowser and alleged teammates of Team Xecuter, Max Louarn, a 48-year-old French citizen of Avignon, and Yuanning Chen, 35, of Shenzhen, China.
Bowser is currently being held on U.S. soil after being arrested in September and deported from the Dominican Republic. Louarn was arrested in Canada, from where the United States is demanding his extradition. Chen is still at large.
It sounds like Nintendo is getting the best out of Gary Bowser’s surveillance in the US. According to Polygon, the new lawsuit alleges that Bowser infringed Nintendo’s copyright in creating and selling its hacks. The case is trying to charge Bowser with two counts of trafficking and one with copyright.
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Team Xecuter may be best known for selling Nintendo Switch mod chips, but it’s been working for years and selling mod chips for consoles as far back as the original Xbox.
There are more than a dozen Team Xecuter members around the world, including developers, website designers, device manufacturers, and retailers. Team Xecuter has used a variety of products for its devices, such as the Gateway 3DS, the Stargate, the TrueBlue Mini, the Classic2Magic, and the SX series devices including the SX OS, the SX Pro, the SX Lite, and the SX Core.
You can recognize the Gateway name. In 2014, Eurogamer reported that Gateway was accused of irreparably blocking users’ 3DS consoles through a secret ‘kill switch’ that it introduced in a recent update. Gateway had previously lamented the introduction of copycat devices that use modified versions of its previous code but repackaged and sold as separate products.
In an interview with TorrentFreak in June 2020, Team Xecuter refuted the piracy stigma while accusing Nintendo of censorship, monopolistic control and legitimate scare tactics. The Justice Department notes that Team Xecuter sometimes “covered illegal activities with an alleged desire to support game fans who wanted to design their own non-commercial video games”, but insisted that the overwhelming demand and use of his devices were to play pirate. video games.
Polygon reports Nintendo wants $ 2,500 in damages for each traded device, $ 150,000 for each copyright infringement, and the complete cessation of Bowser’s operation.