Nintendo sues streamer who said he could broadcast its pirated games "all day"

Nintendo has filed a new lawsuit against a streamer who broadcast 10 pirated games ahead of their release, including The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and Mario & Luigi: Brothership.

In papers filed on Wednesday and reported by Polygon, Nintendo has taken legal action against streamer Jesse Keighin – streaming as Every Game Guru – who allegedly played 10 unreleased Nintendo games over the last decade.

Nintendo further alleges that as well as broadcasting unreleased games, he also instructed others on how to obtain pirated games via “circumvention devices” Nintendo calls “trafficking”.

When Nintendo moved to shutdown Keighin’s streams via copyright notices on YouTube, Twitch, and other streaming platforms, he reportedly told them he “could do this all day” and had “a thousand burner accounts”.

The Japanese megacorp says Keighin’s conduct has cost it “millions of dollars” in “lost video game sales”. It’s seeking £11,600 ($15,000) for each alleged violation of its Copyright Act, £1900 ($2.5K) for each contravention of its anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions in the Copyright Act, and further “actual damages” for the revenue it says it has lost, the amount of which Nintendo says it will “prove at trial”.