Nintendo files lawsuit against pirate who streamed leaked Switch games while taunting the company
Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Jesse Keighin, a player who pirated and streamed leaked Switch games across multiple platforms before their official release, taunting the company on numerous occasions and claiming he could not be stopped.
The details:
According to the lawsuit, Keighin, also known as "Every Game Guru" on various platforms, including YouTube, was accused of streaming at least ten unreleased Nintendo games over a decade, with Nintendo referring to the player as a "recidivist pirate." Nintendo also claims that the games were streamed "more than 50 times in total," with the most recent stream featuring Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which was released on November 7.
Not only is Keighin accused of streaming illegal copies of games, but Nintendo also claims that he taught others how to use "circumvention devices" to play them. This included posting links to emulators, ROM sites, and prod.keys, which are required to play illegal copies. Nintendo referred to these actions as "trafficking."
Keighin's channels have been removed multiple times following "dozens" of requests from Nintendo, but it is claimed that he "continues to unlawfully stream Nintendo's copyrighted works and thumb his nose at Nintendo and the law." Keighin is also accused of taunting the company on numerous occasions, even sending it a letter stating that he "could do this all day" and had "a thousand burner accounts."
Despite the demonetization of the streamer's channels, Nintendo claims that he continued to "seek to profit off his unauthorized streaming of Nintendo's games" by providing information on how to send money through CashApp.
Nintendo is now seeking $150,000 in damages "with respect to each copyrighted work," which equates to a total of $1.5 million for the ten titles streamed. It also seeks $2,500 for each "act of circumvention" committed by Keighin, such as playing games in emulators like Yuzu and Ryujinx, as well as an additional $2,500 for each time he assisted others in playing pirated video games.
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