Why I fell back from Gary and Max
11Computer hacker with a busy past, this 50-year-old man from Avignon has been tracked down for years by the FBI, which accuses him in particular of having developed techniques for hacking game consoles. The hacking veteran does not see himself as a criminal, but as a rebel.
The apartment door opens to a comic book library. A passion that the master of the place, Max Louarn, 50, has been cultivating for thirty years, since the time when, as an engineer, he spent his nights on his computer. He needed this “airlock” of reading before going to bed. After traveling around the planet, this Avignonnais is now preparing the bedroom for his second child in this loft, located in the heart of the city of the Popes. On the wall, a large format photo of his couple: he, maintained by boxing sessions; she, a former Russian model, in an electric blue dress. The snapshot dates from January 2020, in Saint-Barthélemy, the island where they met.
The comic strip wall and the blue dress were also the first things two American police officers came across on November 10, 2020. That day, accompanied by their counterparts from the Montpellier SRPJ, they pounded on the door at 6:30 a.m. “I see myself pinned to the ground,” recalls Max Louarn. FBI agents have been interested in him for almost thirty years. They know his reputation as a pioneer in the world of hackers. Today's forties, who spent their teenage years on game consoles, have stars in their eyes when they hear his name. At the turn of the 1990s, “Maximilian” was the leader of Paradox, a group of geeks who were flooding the market with pirated games.
Gary Bowser, the leader of Switch hacking group Team Xecuter, has been sentenced to 40 months in jail for piracy. The official charges are "Conspiracy to Circumvent Technological Measures and to Traffic in Circumvention Devices" and "Trafficking in Circumvention Devices", both of which are federal felonies in the United States.
Previously the U.S. government were arguing for five years as a jail sentence.
Bowser's group built and sold devices that were used to hack consoles, which can allow players to modify games and play pirated games. Bowser, a 51-year-old Canadian who was arrested in the Dominican Republic and is no relation to Doug Bowser or King Koopa, had already agreed to pay two separate fines: $4.5 million to Nintendo of America as restitution, and a further $10 million also to Nintendo of America as "monetary relief". He has also had all of his consoles destroyed.
In a statement issued by the Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney Nick Brown described the damage done by Team Xecuter as having "caused more than $65 million in losses to video game companies," but sad that the damage went beyond the losses to businesses, "harming video game developers and the small, creative studios whose products and hard work is essentially stolen when games are pirated."
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