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Bowser sentenced to 40-month prison sentence for video game crimes

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A US federal court has sentenced Canadian hacker Doug Bowser to 40 months in prison for his involvement in Switch hacking group Team Xecuter, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Not to be confused with Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser (or Mario's nemesis, for that matter), Bowser was part of a collective that developed and sold devices people could use to play pirated games on their consoles. The FBI arrested Bowser in 2020. One year later, he agreed to pay $10 million to Nintendo to settle a civil privacy lawsuit and another $4.5 million in restitution to the company. Leading up to today's sentencing announcement, Bowser faced up to 10 years in prison.