The Nintendo hacker was released from prison, but he will pay the fine for the rest of his life - voila! The gaming channel

Nintendo Switch OLED (Nintendo)

The "famous hacker" of Nintendo products,

(the villain from Super Mario, how appropriate) has been released from prison.

About a year ago, Bowser was sentenced to about 40 months in prison after being convicted of distributing and selling pirated consoles that run illegal ROMs of Nintendo games.

Includes games for the Switch and 3DS consoles.

Bowser served as the sales and marketing person for the hacker group known as Team Xecutor.

Nintendo claimed the group caused more than $65 million worth of damages.

Bowser admitted his actions and was sentenced to pay a fine of 14.5 million dollars, with ten million going to Nintendo.

Last month he was released from federal custody and is now in detention before returning home to Canada.

Bowser recently had interviews with several podcasts on the network and explained that he is in heavy debt that will haunt him for a long time to come.

Nintendo is allowed to collect between 20-30 percent of its monthly profits to collect the fine.

She didn't wait and he already paid $175 for work he did in the federal prison.

In order to pay off the rest of his debt to Nintendo, he will have to earn at least $40 million, and that's before taxes.

Given Bowser's age (53), it looks like he'll be in debt for the rest of his life.

Even last year, transcripts from his trial were leaked online and Nintendo's lawyer said that the case was considered "a special opportunity to send a message to all pirates wherever they are".

Nintendo Switch OLED Model (photo: official website, Nintendo)

Nintendo is known as a company very jealous of its brands.

It sues pirate sites that offer illegal roms, soundtracks from its games for download, or e-sports leagues where professional players play its titles.

There were cases when she went so far as to remove fan projects from the network on the grounds of copyright infringement.

Free projects built from scratch that are considered a tribute, not copyright infringement.

The topic of Romans is very charged on the Internet.

Especially for Nintendo players.

Many claim that sometimes piracy is the only way to preserve games that do not receive official and up-to-date support from the big companies.

There is a huge catalog that is no longer available legally, and sometimes emulation or piracy is the only way to experience the nostalgia again.

It's a cry that's also heard from Sony, Xbox, and PC players.

In most cases these are very old games that have never been modernized or remastered, but this was definitely not the case with Bowser, who profited from selling illegal consoles running Switch and 3DS games.

The Switch consoles are a very active console, and according to Nintendo the group of hackers caused more than 65 million dollars worth of damage.

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