Team Xecuter was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They often made mods that allowed the video game system to rip games or play pirated games. It was a crowd favorite in the modding scene. Until it all fell apart. The story of what happened to Team Xecuter must be heard to believe.
This episode features Gary Bowser. You can find more about Gary here:
- https://twitter.com/Bowser_GaryOPA
- https://garyopa.com/
- https://www.gofundme.com/f/garyopa-restarting-his-life?utm_location=darknetdiaries
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- https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/usao/legacy/2010/10/12/usab4304.pdf
- https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-to-appeal-not-guilty-judgement-of-flash-cart-sellers-7
- https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-pounces-on-global-piracy-outfit
- https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-members-notorious-videogame-piracy-group-team-xecuter-custody
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Attribution
Darknet Diaries is created by Jack Rhysider.
Assembled by Tristan Ledger.
Episode artwork by odibagas.
Mixing by Proximity Sound.
Theme music created by Breakmaster Cylinder. Theme song available for listen and download at bandcamp. Or listen to it on Spotify.
Equipment
Recording equipment used this episode was the Shure SM7B, Zoom Podtrak P4, Sony MDR7506, in the Hindenburg editor.
Transcript
[START OF RECORDING]
JACK: Okay, so, I read about this story about a video game that I thought was interesting. So, it starts out on Steam. Steam is a video game marketplace, right, and you can download Steam, and through there you could buy video games to play and stuff. It’s a nice system. I like Steam because it provides a sort of standardized way to get games. See, before this, games for the PC were just all over the internet.