El Team Xeuter is a group of developers and specialists in the darkest electronics who have spent years creating systems and modchips that allow you to customize many console models. The problem is that the main use of these modchips is related to uploading illegal copies, and their work is usually frowned upon, to the point of being persecuted.
Arrested for… violating intellectual property?
Two members of the famous Team Xecuter group have been arrested in Seattle after being persecuted by Nintendo for several years. The persecution, obviously, was due to the large number of modchips and external solutions that the team has developed to date to avoid the digital restrictions of Nintendo consoles, something that allowed and allows users to upload illegal copies with complete ease. .
According to the Department of Justice, the defendants are leaders of a criminal group that has been for years "accumulating illegal profits through the creation of devices that pirated video game technology from American companies."
Is it illegal to use a modchip?
In principle, the group relies on the legality that the user can control the hardware they have bought, and there, the devices that Team Xecuter sells could have an infinite number of readings, so they could not always be considered illegal. The key is that the Department of Justice ensures that the company has sold systems with preloaded video games, something that would violate the intellectual property of Nintendo and other developers, when trading with products with a protected license.
Everything gets worse when the accusation indicates that the group sells a special license with which users could unlock the function of playing illegal copies of games in the operating system created for Switch, SX OS, something that only demonstrates the intention to make cash at the expense of illegal copies.
If so, the two arrested, Max Louarn and Gary Bowser, could be in serious trouble, since this practice would uncover the harmless idea of ​​selling modchips to allow users to enjoy freedom with their devices, something that is quickly discovered when seeing the official website of the group, where they launch updates for their SX Lite and SX Core chips with which to run illegal copies of Nintendo games.
A distributed network
According to the indictment, the group consists of more than a dozen members, and in order to avoid prosecution by the law, their work is diversified into a large number of brands, websites, and distribution channels to make it extremely difficult to trace. The origin. The products that they have been marketing during all this time are the following:
- 3DS Gateway
- Stargate
- True Blue Mini
- Classic2Magic
- SX OS
- SX Pro
- SX Lite
- SX Core
To this day, the official website of Team Xecuter is still operational, and all its products are still being sold in a large number of distributors, so we'll see how the case evolves.