© NintendoNintendo seems fed up with Bowser and decided to take action. No, it’s not about Mario’s enemy or the current president of Nintendo of America, Doug – we’re talking about Gary Bowser, one of the alleged leaders of the “notorious” piracy group, Team Xecuter.
As you may recall, Bowser – a 51-year-old Canadian – was arrested and charged with 11 offenses last year, and now Nintendo is suing him.
According to Polygon, the new lawsuit filed in Seattle claims that Bowser’s “international pirate ring” operations, which involved creating and selling hacks, allegedly infringed Nintendo’s copyright. The Nintendo team is seeking to charge him with two counts of trafficking and copyright infringement. It seems that Bowser has been creating and selling hacking devices since “at least” 2013.
Nintendo’s lawyers say hacking and piracy are “serious, [and] worsening the international problem “and that Bowser products put more than 79 million Switch consoles” at risk “of piracy.
Nintendo is looking for $ 2,500 for each trafficked device, $ 150,000 for each copyright infringement and wants to permanently stop Bowser’s operations. You can see the full court documents here.