Nintendo is suing streamer Jesse Keighin for repeatedly streaming pirated Nintendo games ahead of their release dates, according to a new lawsuit reviewed by Polygon and filed Wednesday in a Colorado court. Nintendo said Keighin, who goes by Every Game Guru across streaming and social media platforms, has streamed 10 then-unreleased Nintendo games over the past 10 years, with titles as recent as Mario & Luigi Brothership, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Super Mario Party Jamboree. He also instructed his limited number of viewers on how to get these games early, too, per the lawsuit, something Nintendo alleged is “trafficking” in illegal “circumvention devices,” like emulators and keys to access the games.
Nintendo said in the lawsuit this sort of infringement has caused “millions of dollars” worth of damage to the company through “lost video game sales.”
“Streaming leaked games prior to their publication normalizes and encourages prerelease piracy—Defendant
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