The 52-year-old Gary Bowser, sold as part of the Hacker Group Team Xecuter manipulated custom firmware for the Nintendo Switch, which enabled piracy on the console. Now the Ministry of Justice has convicted him to a 40-month prison sentence. The authority speaks that Bowser was an "important key figure" in the group, helping to develop and sell products that were used to chop video game consoles . The prison sentence of more than three years is the end of a long series of procedures.

• What happened so far?
• 65 million US dollars damage

What happened so far?

Already in 2020, the Canadian was arrested in the Dominican Republic and finally delivered to the USA. With the sale of custom hardware and firmware, it should have taken together with his hacker group two-digit million amounts . In addition to criminal consequences, Nintendo Gary Bowser also sued for damages. Bowser pleaded in guilty and was first sentenced to a penalty of $ 4.5 million in a first procedure, in a second procedure was a penalty of $ 10 million. Bowser took both punishments and thus has to pay in total 14.5 million dollars punishment and in addition for more than three years to jail.

65 million US dollars damage

_ "The estimated damage resulting from video game companies by this piracy software amounts to $ 65 million" _, the U.S lawyer Nick Brown in a statement. _ "But the injured damage goes far beyond the damage to these companies, beyond video game developers and small creative studios, whose products and hard work was factically stolen when the games were pirated." _

The US Department of Justice writes in He press release, he has managed the website of Team Xecuter and created a "online library of pirated video games" _. In addition, two more members are charged by Team Xecuter. However, these are currently not detained, while Homeland Security Investigation and the FBI continue to determine.

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