Jack Recider

And I don't know how, but Maximilian took these stolen calling cards and racked up a $22 million phone bill with them. Maximilian was arrested for this and he pled guilty and was sentenced to almost six years in jail. He was sent to prison in Virginia. And I think this is a good time for an ad break while we wait for him to get out of prison.

And I don't know how, but Maximilian took these stolen calling cards and racked up a $22 million phone bill with them. Maximilian was arrested for this and he pled guilty and was sentenced to almost six years in jail. He was sent to prison in Virginia. And I think this is a good time for an ad break while we wait for him to get out of prison.

But stay with us because that's just Maximilian's origin story. What he does next is even more crazy. So Maximilian served six years in prison for stealing calling cards. But when he got out of prison, it seemed like he went back to the pirate scene. He bought the website Divinio. Do you remember a site called Divinio at the time?

But stay with us because that's just Maximilian's origin story. What he does next is even more crazy. So Maximilian served six years in prison for stealing calling cards. But when he got out of prison, it seemed like he went back to the pirate scene. He bought the website Divinio. Do you remember a site called Divinio at the time?

So what Maximilian saw was that Team Executor had been making and selling these mod chips by the tens of thousands. And there was a whole system in place. The chips were created in Asia somewhere and then shipped in bulk to the US and then sold through the Divinio site.

So what Maximilian saw was that Team Executor had been making and selling these mod chips by the tens of thousands. And there was a whole system in place. The chips were created in Asia somewhere and then shipped in bulk to the US and then sold through the Divinio site.

Max thought this looked like a good business and got in touch with Paul Owen, the owner of Team Executor, and Max offered to buy Team Executor from Paul. The Team Executor branding, the website, the supply chain, everything was sold to Maximilian. Now that he had his little mod chip business, Maximilian needed a solid way of getting the word out on his new products.

Max thought this looked like a good business and got in touch with Paul Owen, the owner of Team Executor, and Max offered to buy Team Executor from Paul. The Team Executor branding, the website, the supply chain, everything was sold to Maximilian. Now that he had his little mod chip business, Maximilian needed a solid way of getting the word out on his new products.

So that's when he decided to buy maxconsole.com, a popular modding forum. His idea was that he could use this place to just basically have unlimited marketing for all the things that Team Executor was releasing. and he just needed someone to help run the site, and that's when he asked Gary.

So that's when he decided to buy maxconsole.com, a popular modding forum. His idea was that he could use this place to just basically have unlimited marketing for all the things that Team Executor was releasing. and he just needed someone to help run the site, and that's when he asked Gary.

Well, Nintendo was all over these forums, and seeing when new mod chips were announced, didn't like this one bit. And they started doing their own research. They found that Divinio had been getting their chips from Hong Kong. So Nintendo went to Hong Kong and opened up a court case against Divinio, claiming it's an infringement on their intellectual property.

Well, Nintendo was all over these forums, and seeing when new mod chips were announced, didn't like this one bit. And they started doing their own research. They found that Divinio had been getting their chips from Hong Kong. So Nintendo went to Hong Kong and opened up a court case against Divinio, claiming it's an infringement on their intellectual property.

The Hong Kong Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nintendo, which immediately froze all of Divinio's operations in Hong Kong. And the ruling demanded that Max pay Nintendo 44 million euros in damage. 44 million euros, that's a huge fine. But I believe Maximilian just found a different country to get his chips from and kept on doing business without paying any of the fines put on him.

The Hong Kong Supreme Court ruled in favor of Nintendo, which immediately froze all of Divinio's operations in Hong Kong. And the ruling demanded that Max pay Nintendo 44 million euros in damage. 44 million euros, that's a huge fine. But I believe Maximilian just found a different country to get his chips from and kept on doing business without paying any of the fines put on him.

So Nintendo went to his home country, France, to take legal action on him there. They took him to court, and they told the courts, look, we already found this guy guilty in Hong Kong. He's supposed to be paying us 44 million euros in damages. He hasn't paid a cent of it yet, and he keeps violating our intellectual property. Can you please do something?

So Nintendo went to his home country, France, to take legal action on him there. They took him to court, and they told the courts, look, we already found this guy guilty in Hong Kong. He's supposed to be paying us 44 million euros in damages. He hasn't paid a cent of it yet, and he keeps violating our intellectual property. Can you please do something?

But the French courts ruled in favor of Maximilian. Max's defense was that Nintendo was locking out developers from being able to develop on the system, and his mod chip allowed anyone to develop on it and play homebrew games on it. And the courts liked that. They said, yeah, Nintendo, what's up with you putting all these locks on your game system so people can't build on it? Seems rude.

But the French courts ruled in favor of Maximilian. Max's defense was that Nintendo was locking out developers from being able to develop on the system, and his mod chip allowed anyone to develop on it and play homebrew games on it. And the courts liked that. They said, yeah, Nintendo, what's up with you putting all these locks on your game system so people can't build on it? Seems rude.

Leave Max alone. So Nintendo took a bad blow there. I think they tried to appeal that case, but I couldn't find any articles that followed up with it.

Leave Max alone. So Nintendo took a bad blow there. I think they tried to appeal that case, but I couldn't find any articles that followed up with it.