The Nintendo hacker ends up in jail: "Damage for over 65 million dollars"

It has sold "pirated" video games causing Nintendo and other companies a loss of over $ 65 million. And so Canadian hacker Gary Bowser was sentenced in a Washington state federal court to 40 months in prison.

Bowser, who was a resident of the Dominican Republic at the time of his arrest, agreed to pay $ 4.5 million as a plea bargain and partial compensation to the US Nintendo headquarters.

"The damage goes beyond these businesses, hitting game developers and small creative studios whose products and hard work have essentially been stolen," Nick Brown, US attorney, said in an official statement.

Bowser was found "guilty of conspiracy" for bypassing and evading anti-piracy and device trafficking measures. The man was also expelled from the Dominican Republic and charged with two other accomplices: the French Max Louarn, 49, and the Chinese Yuanning Chen, 36. Once convicted, they will also be permanently extradited from the United States.

(Unioneonline / vl)