Nintendo suing man who streamed leaked Nintendo Switch games

Nintendo has been known to take game piracy very seriously, and yet another example of that is now happening with the company’s lawsuit against a streamer.

The heart of the case involves Jesse Keighin – also known as EveryGameGuru – who is claimed to have streamed pirated and emulated Nintendo Switch games, including some prior to launch. Matters were made worse when Keighin continued his actions even after his channels were shut down, informed his audience about how to pirate games, and teased the company. Nintendo said in its lawsuit: “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’s lawsuit goes on to talk about streaming pirated games before they were publicly released. One example includes Mario & Luigi: Brothership, which Keighin was playing on YouTube and other platforms on October 22. Brothership just launched yesterday, November 7.

The lawsuit states (via 404 Media):

“On at least fifty occasions in the last two years, Defendant has streamed gameplay footage of pirated copies of at least ten different Nintendo games without authorization – all before those titles were released to the public. All of these streams were unauthorized and all compromise Nintendo’s legitimate prerelease marketing. They also promote and encourage downloading of pirated copies of unpublished games. Defendant’s streams often consist merely of him playing Nintendo’s leaked games without commentary for extended periods of time.”

Keighin could be down $7.5 million as Nintendo is pursuing $150,000 for each copyright infringement. As stated above, Keighin streamed pirated gameplay footage “on at least fifty occasions in the last two years”.