Team-Xecuter’s Gary Bowser Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges * TorrentFreak
Gary Bowser has pleaded guilty to his role in the Team-Xecuter conspiracy which marketed and sold Nintendo hacks.
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Last year the feds indicted three alleged members of the hacking group Team-Xecuter, which marketed and sold various Nintendo hacks. One of the defendants, Canadian Gary Bowser, initially denied the allegations but has since changed his mind. In a plea agreement, Bowser admits his role in the conspiracy. In addition, Bowser also agrees to pay Nintendo $4.5 million in restitution.
The plea agreement with the U.S. Government sheds more light on how Team-Xecuter operated.
“Defendant, GARY BOWSER, aka ‘GaryOPA,’ knowingly and willfully participated in a cybercriminal enterprise that hacked leading gaming consoles and that developed, manufactured, marketed, and sold a variety of circumvention devices that allowed the enterprise’s customers to play pirated versions of copyrighted video games, commonly referred to as ‘ROMs’,”
“The enterprise generated at least tens of millions of dollars of proceeds from the sale of its circumvention devices,” the agreement reads, adding that this directly harmed Nintendo and other parties.
In addition to the guilty plea on two counts, Bowser also voluntarily agreed to pay $4.5 million in restitution to Nintendo. He also agreed to help locate any remaining Team-Xecuter assets.
Ill assume, that as many case "intention" is what put things as black or white, so having someone on the record agree that Team X product were designed for piracy and just "promoted as homebrew" is the falling of them