Nintendo Is Suing a Streamer for Sharing Unreleased Games
The company is asking for $7.5 million USD.
Nintendo is taking legal action against a streamer who allegedly “streamed pirated and emulated Nintendo Switch games,” 404 Media reported.
The company is reportedly suing Jesse Keighin, who streams under the name EveryGameGuru, for streaming the titles, some of which were unreleased. Nintendo is reportedly asking for $150,000 USD for each instance of copyright infringement, a total of $7.5 million USD, per 404 Media.
According to the report, Nintendo regularly sends cease and desist letters to streamers but after Keighin’s accounts were shut down, he went on to launch new streaming channels where he continued to share the pirated games.
“On October 24, 2024, after certain platforms had taken down his unlawful streams as a result of Nintendo’s enforcement actions, he sent Nintendo a letter boasting that he has ‘a thousand burner channels’ to stream from and [he] ‘can do this all day,’” Nintendo said in the suit, per 404 Media.
The company cited over 50 instances of Keighin streaming gameplay footage of pirated titles. Ten of those games hadn’t yet been released to the public, the suit read.
