Nintendo sues a streamer for streaming ten games before their release - GAMESCENSOR
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Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against streamer Jesse "Every game Guru" Keighin for streaming games from ten pirated titles before their release. In a filing filed in the US District Court for the District of Colorado last Wednesday, Nintendo accused Keighin of obtaining and streaming leaked titles on more than 50 occasions since 2022, most
  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    2 months ago

    According to the document, Keighin sent a letter to Nintendo in late October “bragging that he has ‘a thousand recorded channels’ to stream” and that he will continue to use them.

    Don’t think he was intimidated

    • MagnyusG@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      Except they know his real name and his face, that kind of threat doesn’t work when they can just tell your country to arrest you for breaking the law.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        151·
        2 months ago

        that kind of threat doesn’t work when they can just tell your country to arrest you for breaking the law.

        That assumes the country gives a shit. Many countries simply do not care about what Intellectual Property you “own” or created in some other country.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          2 months ago

          But then those sorts of countries usually have law enforcement that likes taking large amounts of “financial incentives” to do whatever a company like Nintendo wants them to do.

          • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
            101·
            2 months ago

            I’m not sure that Nintendo has any pull in any Middle Eastern country or China.

            But all of this is moot as the lawsuit is in the US… And Nintendo would just tell the streaming services to ban them over and over again.

      • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        The key here is $152.500 per infringement. So if he streamed at least 50 times in the past two years, that’s $76 million at least.

        And that falls straight back into “normalcy” (for Nintendo).

          • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
            51·
            1 month ago

            Follow the source of this article (in this case Polygon, yuck) and you will find the original info:

            It’s seeking $150,000 for each alleged violation of Nintendo’s rights outlined in the Copyright Act and $2,500 for each alleged violation of the Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention and anti-trafficking provisions. Alternatively, Nintendo also could elect to take “actual damages,” i.e. money it’s lost, and Keighin’s profits, “in amounts to be proven at trial.”