For the first time since his release from prison, Nintendo pirate Gary Bowser has gone into detail about his experience and his ongoing struggles to pay fines to the company.
In an interview with The Guardian, Bowser spoke to his life before, during, and after prison. Bowser first got involved with piracy in the late 2000s, when he began to work with Team Xecuter on bypassing anti-piracy measures. He was something of a “middleman” between the programmers breaking code and the testers who would troubleshoot devices.
He was arrested in September 2020, while living in the Dominican Republic. Bowser said, “The day that it happened, I was sleeping in my bed, it was four in the morning, I’d been drinking all night, and suddenly I wake up and see three people surrounding my bed with rifles aimed at my head … they dragged me out of the place, put me in the back of a pickup truck and drove me to the Interpol office.”
Source: Gamespot Nintendo Pirate Gary Bowser Claims His Case Serves As "A Message" To Other Pirates