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Sorry - thought the article would be sufficient on that on its own. Xecuter was the international piracy operation. They moved millions in terms of sold produc
by noirscape 3y ago
Sorry - thought the article would be sufficient on that on its own. Xecuter was the international piracy operation.
They moved millions in terms of sold products over the years and had deals with Chinese factories to make that stuff "at scale" and had exchanges on how to get their devices past border controls; all this stuff is in the legal complaint he got jailed for.
- crtasm 3y agoI don't believe they were selling copies of any games? Modchip operation.
- kevingadd 3y agoXecuter for some reason decided to also sell access to game dumps instead of just modchips/flash carts. IIRC it was never proven that Bowser was specifically involved in that part, but the group did it for sure.
- noirscape 3y agoThe software their modchips used (called SX OS) took a lazy shortcut that also effectively means it embedded chunks of the Horizon operating system that the Switch uses (the filesystem module to be exact), combined with embedding gamecard headers in the software to trick the gamecard firmware. It also embedded a massive chunk of the free CFW Atmosphere (which is GPL2.0-Only, with some modifications), and they obviously never open sourced it. So yes, they were effectively selling their customers (modified) copies of Nintendo's software.
- crtasm 3y agoThanks for the extra information.
- FireBeyond 3y agoOh, yes, and Bowser was just ... "updating the website from time to time" because "the people actually doing all the manufacture and sales were not really social". I don't buy that. Piracy operation has some semi-retired guy just "help out" with their website because he's more of a people person than they are, but other than that he had no idea what was really going on?