Nintendo surely has been fighting to stop Team Xecuter from modifying and pirating their 3DS and Nintendo Switch hardware and trying to profit from it.
Nintendo’s fight isn’t over, but the company’s persistence is paying off. According to the Department of Justice, “two leaders of one of the world’s most notorious video-game piracy groups, Team Xecuter, have been arrested and are in custody facing charges filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle”.
Charged as followed
They also said that the two “were charged in a federal indictment unsealed today. The indictment alleges the defendants were leaders of a criminal enterprise that developed and sold illegal devices that hacked popular video-game consoles so they could be used to play unauthorized, or pirated, copies of video-games.
The enterprise targeted popular consoles such as the Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo 3DS, the Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition, the Sony PlayStation Classic, and the Microsoft Xbox.
Each defendant is charged with 11 felony counts, including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to circumvent technological measures and to traffic in circumvention devices, trafficking in circumvention devices, and conspiracy to commit money laundering”.
The end of piracy?
Well well well …. good for you Nintendo. But not it will not be the end of piracy.
But if one falls others will take their place, is really all I can say.
This has always been the case in the past and probably will be so in the future.
I do hope though Nintendo will do one thing; when a Nintendo Switch successor or Pro comes out … keep the Nintendo Switch Online ecosystem AND with it the game library you have bought. More parties are going that route and this will keep a lot of people from even wanting to hack their system all together.
See it as this; back in the day there was no Netflix, Hulu, Disney + and so on … SO people downloaded a heckin LOT. Now these options are here, sure there are still people who download stuff BUT it’s a night and day difference when compared.
Same will go with games if people don’t have to dish out cash again for the eight time to get Zelda A Link to the Past , Super Mario All stars and so on.
Follow leading examples in that regard like Steam.
What do you guys think?
