Nintendo filed a lawsuit against an individual who apparently “repeatedly streamed pirated and emulated” Switch games while also promoting “Switch emulators and other piracy tools” to his audience.
As points out 404 MediaJesse Keighin (known online as ‘EveryGameGuru’) reportedly “got under Nintendo’s skin” after refusing to comply with the video game giant.
Keighin is accused of escalating the situation by continuing to stream Switch games (including new titles ago were released), monetizing his video content, and even “bragged” about his actions in a letter to a Japanese company.
“On October 24, 2024after certain platforms took down his illegal streams as a result of Nintendo’s enforcement measures, he sent Nintendo a letter boasting that he had ‘a thousand recording channels’ to stream and [he] “I can do this all day,” Nintendo says in its lawsuit.
The most recent example of this was last month when Keighin reportedly streamed Mario & Luigi: Brotherhood on “YouTube and other platforms.”
The lawsuit further alleges that he “streamed gameplay footage” of multiple new games “at least fifty times” before they were even available to the public:
“On at least fifty occasions over the past two years, the defendant illegally uploaded footage of pirated copies of at least ten different Nintendo games being played – all before those titles were released to the public”
According to the lawsuit, he also previously told Nintendo that he would “actively help people find newer and updated copies” of popular Nintendo emulators, and is accused of offering to help people play Switch games “on their computers” without having to buy official Switch hardware.
Nintendo is now “seeking 150 thousand dollars for infringing his copyright” and factoring in “at least fifty times in the last two years” that comes to $7.5 million.
