Nintendo's lawsuit bonanza continues, with streamer EveryGameGuru targeted for being 'a recidivist pirate who has obtained and streamed Nintendo's leaked games on multiple occasions'
Nintendo's lawyers continue earning their paychecks, most recently by filing a suit against Jesse Keighin, AKA EveryGameGuru, for streaming Nintendo games like The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Mario & Luigi: Brothership ahead of their release dates, as well as allegedly linking to ROM sites and emulators.
In the colorful words of the filing, via 404 Media, «Defendant is a recidivist pirate who has obtained and streamed Nintendo's leaked games on multiple occasions.»
Nintendo previously used copyright takedown notices on EveryGameGuru's footage, which the filing notes «often consist merely of him playing Nintendo's leaked games without commentary for extended periods of time.» According to Nintendo's claims, he streamed Mario & Luigi: Brothership 16 days before it was released, Super Mario Party Jamboree six days before it was released, and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom five days before it was released, among others.
EveryGameGuru responded to the takedowns by sending Nintendo an email with the heading «I have a thousand burner channels» in which he wrote «We can do this all day». After that, the filing continues, «Defendant began adding a CashApp handle to his streams, continuing to seek to profit off of his unauthorized streaming of Nintendo's games. On top of his own flagrant piracy, he has also posted links to repositories of pirated game files ('ROMs') encouraging and inducing his followers and viewers to unlawfully reproduce Nintendo's games.»
It wasn't just piracy Nintendo objected to, but the promotion of emulators. The filing named the Yuzu and Ryujinx emulators in particular, claiming that linking to them counted as «trafficking in that unlawful software». Nintendo's campaign against these emulators resulted in them both being shut down last year, with Yuzu settling a lawsuit for $2.4 million followed by Ryujinx being taken offline at Nintendo's demand, presumably to avoid a similar situation. Since then, the company has been playing DMCA
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