Team-Xecuter Accuses Nintendo of Censorship and Legal Scare Tactics

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Team-Xecuter is widely known for creating 'hacks' that bypass digital restrictions on Nintendo consoles.
Nintendo sees these tools as a major piracy threat and recently sued several stores that sell the products.

Last month, TorrentFreak reported on the Nintendo crackdown against resellers of TX Products, and recently @Xecuter answered questions that TorrentFreak had regarding the ongoing battles and the recent launch of their latest Switch products, below is some of that interview were Team-Xecuter refutes ther 'piracy stigma' and instead accuses Nintendo of legal scare tactics and monopolistic control and overall outright 'censorship'.

“Of course we are not happy with this kind of censorship that is being enforced by legal injunctions that make us out to be something we are not: a copyright-infringing ring of software pirates,” Team-Xecuter tells TorrentFreak.

With the lawsuits, Nintendo hoped to limit the availability of SX Core and SX Lite, but it couldn’t prevent them from being shipped out to customers this week. While some may use the hacks to load and play pirated games, Team-Xecuter notes that their products have a wide variety of use cases.

“Our products allow the end-user to make legitimate backups of their original cartridges that they can keep to themselves and play, but this is only a very tiny subset of what the SX products allow you to do. With SX you can expand your storage capacities of your console, run Linux, Android and a myriad of opensource applications, games, and utilities,” they tell us.

In addition, Team-Xecuter points out that its products also allow amateur programmers to test their games and software on the otherwise closed ecosystem. That spurs innovation and allows aspiring coders to develop their talent.

“We believe many of these cases are based on legal scare tactics. But that is (sadly) enough to get a small vendor (often side-businesses ran by enthusiasts) who does not have the financial/legal capacity to fight such lawsuits in court to fold and stop their operations entirely.”

Team-Xecuter is not directly targeted in these lawsuits but it stands firmly behind its activities. The group believes that people are allowed to tinker with products they legally bought, pointing to the growing “right to repair” movement which stand up for the same ideals

“We are firm believers of the right to repair legislation, a growing movement to counteract the monopolistic control over hardware which is the property of the consumer who paid for it in the first place,” Team-Xecuter notes.

So there you have it the cannonball's are loaded on both sides, and the Xecuter Pirate Ships are going to face off against the Nintendo Fleet of Warships, with the main fact that 'consumers' have the 'right to repair' and 'tinker' with products that they purchased, and not everyone uses their products just for 'piracy', there is also 'homebrew', 'Linux', 'Android' and up and coming 'small game developers'.