Nintendo wins lawsuit against player who kept streaming pirated Switch games.

[ThunderBoy]

Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a streamer who regularly played pirated games before their release, while taunting the company that he couldn't be caught.

Last year Nintendo sued Jesse Keighin, who it claimed would stream games on various online platforms under his username Every Game Guru.

The lawsuit stated that since 2022, Keighin has streamed "at least 10 of Nintendo's leaked games" before they were released, "more than 50 times in total", the most recent at the time of the lawsuit being Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
It also claimed that Keighin taunted Nintendo, sending the company "a letter boasting that he has 'a thousand burner channels' to stream from and 'can do this all day'".

As reported by TorrentFreak, Keighin continued to taunt Nintendo's lawyers on Facebook, writing: "Should have done more research on me. You might run a corporation, I run the streets."

In April 2025, Nintendo filed a new motion claiming that Keighin had "evaded service" of the complaint, but was then served it through substituted means via both email and letters to his mother, grandmother and partner.

After Keighin failed to respond by the deadline, the court clerk entered default against him on March 26 and Nintendo asked the court to make a default judgement against him for $17,500 in damages.

A Colorado federal court has now granted Nintendo's request, and ordered Keighin to pay $17,500 in damages, but also said that two of Nintendo's requests for a permanent injunction couldn't be granted.

Because Kieghin mostly used emulation software available online, the judge ruled that Nintendo's request that he "destroy all circumvention devices" was rejected, because the request was "unclear" and "unreasonable".

Nintendo also asked for the injunction to apply to third parties who worked alongside Keighin, but the judge denied this too because Nintendo didn't specify who these third parties were, meaning the final judgement was simply for $17,500

https://www.videogameschronicle.com...itch-games-and-taunted-i-can-do-this-all-day/

 

[Not_Red]

You would think that given this site I would support this dude instead of Nintendo, but he was kind of asking for it and totally deserves this outcome. There is a difference between playing games that are no longer available and playing those that haven't even released for people to see and completely ruin the surprise factor.

 

[JG5009]

To no one's surprise kicking the wasp nest was going to have consequences

Pirating nintendo is cool in the internet and all that, but why these dumbasses keep doing this?

 

[TentaclesMod]

1) He was being an idiot and unironically asking for it
2) I actually REALLY like the court's failing, how it indicted Keighin because, duh, but denied Nintendo's more unreasonable demands. It feels like actual law at work for a change rather than corporations doing whatever they want.

 

[JPchicre]

That was actually an okay outcome to this situation.

 

[Alarond]

This seems to be an interesting case. More than you think.

If that guy was using "original copies" to stream... Nintendo could lawsuit him? I mean... he could farm money using Nintendo's games... exactly like he probably is. But doing it without using pirated games.

Then.... what is EXACTLY the reason Nintendo persecutes him? Because he did not buy HIS copies? That is a lot less money than the $17,500.

If Nintendo demands money for streaming its games, the real origin of those games are basically non-important.

I can understand a lawsuit if that guy is PROMOTING ACTIVELY to download pirated Nintendo games in his streams... but the stream "by itself"... I can't understand why they demand money to him, and not to the rest of streamers of their games.

 

[petran79]

it is odd because in such cases the easiest part is to contact the stream company and delete the stream or ban the account. Would have saved Nintendo money too

 

[Boo Man]

get a life Nintendo

 

[PacGuy]

Fuck big N. I lived long enough to watch them become the bad guy.

However, this guy was kind of asking for it.

 

[qw90700]

Dude the whole news is funny AF. What a fucking clown.

"I run the streets"

"run the streets"

"the streets"

So? Did he plan to walk to Japan and take down the territory Nintendo was in with his homies? Fucking brain dead twat ayy lmao. Kids believe they are a god just because they are being "followed" on social media. They think they are prophet or some shit protected by gods and dragons. Streets my ass, suck dick now lol.

This time Nintendo is right. Fuck such fuckers who don't know their place so he will realize what kind of rubbish he is and get real yo lol.

Ayy lmao Nintendo moment:

 

[Sfjeov]

As reported by TorrentFreak, Keighin continued to taunt Nintendo's lawyers on Facebook, writing: "Should have done more research on me. You might run a corporation, I run the streets."

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

I actually think that Nintendo letting this slide would have been worse, because it was so blatant on the guy's end that not doing anything simply wasn't in the cards at that point.

 

[Advil Lavs]

Really? That picture of Mario again?

 

[Bakuma1997]

"Nintendo is big bad for opressing my gaming practices"

My brother in christ you are the one that blatantly pirated software and though you would get away with it

 

[Boo Man]

i think everyone should do it
they cant sue us all

 

[pissstain]

i support piracy and blatantly flaunting it in nintendos face fuck nintendo LMAO

 

[qw90700]

This seems to be an interesting case. More than you think.

If that guy was using "original copies" to stream... Nintendo could lawsuit him? I mean... he could farm money using Nintendo's games... exactly like he probably is. But doing it without using pirated games.

Then.... what is EXACTLY the reason Nintendo persecutes him? Because he did not buy HIS copies? That is a lot less money than the $17,500.

If Nintendo demands money for streaming its games, the real origin of those games are basically non-important.

I can understand a lawsuit if that guy is PROMOTING ACTIVELY to download pirated Nintendo games in his streams... but the stream "by itself"... I can't understand why they demand money to him, and not to the rest of streamers of their games.

Well speaking from what the articles says about this funny events:

- The Nintendo's main complaint was that this victim (lol) streamed gameplay videos of unreleased Nintendo games that they turned out to be pirated copies. So he was guilty of Copyright Infringement and Piracy. 2 seperate crimes.

- However it was just a legal complaint, he wasn't guilty yet so he was called to court for law to determine if he is really guilty or not but he refused. Despite clear evidences everyone is innocent until a judge judges against it.

- By refusing to come to the court the victim's absence automatically meant Nintendo's claim is right (because Nintendo has concrete evidence of the crime to prove he is guilty enough) and therefore law should follow the default procedure of determining the victim is guilty and therefore have to pay up what judge asked and Nintendo agreed according to the nature of crimes he committed. Law followed their own rules and determined the default thing to do when someone commit such a nature of crime is have to pay $17,500. He could be asked to pay less or more but this is what judge and Nintendo agreed upon.

- If he had showed up to the court he could possibly prevent to pay that much money. In however way possible Nintendo asked for million yet they determined the victim cannot pay that much money so they reduced how much they ask. The thing is the victim perhaps cannot even pay that much money.

- If the victim didn't pirate any game he would be still guilty of Copyright Infringement and could still asked to pay the same amount of money. However he would likely have to pay like $10,000 since he didn't show up in court and he legally don't have to pay more money due to he didn't pirate the games in this what if situation.

- Nintendo's way of legal strike has the logic of "making as much as money we can" + "make this person never fuck with us". Considering Nintendo did settle with $17,500 means legally it would be what the victim could realistically pay. It's pointless to ask millions when victim cannot pay so Nintendo settled with what he could pay, he must be that poor AF lol.

 

[dogo]

fuck nintendo but that guy kinda deserved it ngl

 

[DrunkGecko]

i literally streamed a cracked version of outlast 2 today

 

[Boo Man]

i literally streamed a cracked version of outlast 2 today

straight to jail!