Nintendo Sues Streamer of Emulated, Pre-Released Games

[Fenton]

Nintendo is suing a man who allegedly repeatedly streamed pirated and emulated Nintendo Switch games, sometimes before they were released, and at times directed his audience to popular Switch emulators and other piracy tools, according to a new lawsuit viewed by 404 Media.

It’s common for Nintendo to send cease and desist letters, file takedown requests with platforms that host emulators, or sue companies that create piracy tools. But it appears that in this case the defendant, Jesse Keighin, who usually goes by EveryGameGuru online, got under Nintendo’s skin because he didn’t stop streaming the emulated games in response to the company’s usual tactics.

Instead, whenever one of his channels was shut down he opened new channels on other platforms, directed his seemingly small audience to pirate Nintendo games, and at times contacted Nintendo to tease the company directly. The lawsuit shows that Nintendo followed Keighin’s online activity closely, tracking him across Discord, YouTube, Twitch, Kick, and a number of lesser known streaming platforms.

According to the lawsuit, Nintendo is seeking $150,000 per infringement of its copyright. Conservatively, going by Nintendo’s claim that Keighin streamed pirated gameplay footage “on at least fifty occasions in the last two years,” he’s looking at $7.5 million.

Nintendo Sues Streamer of Emulated, Pre-Released Games

The streamer, who opened new channels when Nintendo shut them down, said he “can do this all day.”

www.404media.co

 

[peter42O]

Damn. $7.5M. Good luck to that guy. You would think that people would know better by now when it comes to Nintendo but nope.

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

Damn. $7.5M. Good luck to that guy. You would think that people would know better by now when it comes to Nintendo but nope.

Nobody can save you when the Nintendo lawyers come knocking.

 

[Etifilio]

Sony should learn and start putting Denuvo on the PC ports we pay $70 for on console

 

[Falcs]

directed his seemingly small audience to pirate Nintendo games, and at times contacted Nintendo to tease the company directly

Lol. What a Chad.

 

[BillyZ]

Lol. What a Chad.

There's nothing more BASED than when you have to sell your ass on the street's corner because Nintendo took all your money and it still isn't enough.

 

[Kokoloko]

When you pirate Nintendo. Do it in your own privacy and not stream it to the world…

 

[TrishaCat]

>streaming pirated games that aren't out yet
Why would you do this

 

[arvfab]

How would they know it was pirated

Only a guess, but if they stream a Switch game on emulator (and if maybe the game wasn't even released yet officially, but pirate copies were already circulating), seems very likely that it was pirated.

 

[TrishaCat]

Only a guess, but if they stream a Switch game on emulator (and if maybe the game wasn't even released yet officially, but pirate copies were already circulating), seems very likely that it was pirated.

Yeah I thought about my question for a moment and realized if it's prerelease the chances of it being pirated are near 100%

 

[Bo_Hazem]

That's fair play.

 

[Neversummer]

Good example PS need to follow.

Dmca that Bloodborne port & YouTube channels that promote ShadPS4 “emulation” really just pirating & playing PS4 games for free. Nintendo will surpass Sony in evaluation by being cutthroat, methodical & choosing slower long term growth/profit then the more western/eu short term profit/growth & short vision at the cost of long term

 

[Old Gamer]

Dmca that Bloodborne port

There is no port, it's being emulated.

They would only have a strong case if games were being leaked and emulated before release.

 

[DarkLordOtaku]

There's nothing more BASED than when you have to sell your ass on the street's corner because Nintendo took all your money and it still isn't enough.

Nah, it's not so grim. Nintendo will just send you to prison for over a year, and take 30% of your wages (after necessary expenses) for the rest of your life.

 

[BillyZ]

There is no port, it's being emulated.

They would only have a strong case if games were being leaked and emulated before release.

Not true. It helps of course but what really matters is that all games are encrypted nowadays and you're not allowed to decrypt them. This is the argument Nintendo is using and if someone doesn't like it they can see them in court, spoiler alert they won't. Sony could do the same but they're cucks.

 

[Kokoloko]

Nah, it's not so grim. Nintendo will just send you to prison for over a year, and take 30% of your wages (after necessary expenses) for the rest of your life.

Thats when you go to Mexico and start over lol

 

[Vertigo]

Petty.