Nintendo Sues Bowser

A lawsuit has been filed by Nintendo of America against the alleged leader of an international video game piracy group.

Canadian national Gary Bowser was arrested in October last year on suspicion of heading a criminal enterprise called Team Xecuter that the United States Department of Justice said created and sold illegal hacking devices. 

The circumvention devices enabled users to hack popular video game consoles, including the Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo 3DS, and the Nintendo Entertainment System Classic Edition, so they could be used to play unauthorized, or pirated, copies of authentic gaming titles.

Bowser and his alleged co-conspirator, Frenchman Max Louarn, were each 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. 

Charges were filed by Nintendo of America's president, Doug Bowser, against Gary Bowser in a western Seattle District Court on Friday, April 16, in what Mario enthusiasts might call a real-life Battle of Bowsers. 

In the suit, Gary Bowser is accused of running a "pirate operation" that infringed Nintendo's copyright by creating and selling hacks. 

Nintendo alleges that Bowser "has been a leader in the hacking and piracy community targeting Nintendo’s intellectual property more broadly for many years" and "has trafficked in circumvention devices and helped facilitate infringement of Nintendo video games not only on t ..

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