Roughly one year ago, we learned that Nintendo had filed a lawsuit against a creator known online as Every Game Guru. The lawsuit accused the creator of promoting piracy and streaming pirated copies of games, sometimes before those games were even available to buy. Now, Nintendo has won the lawsuit.
This week, TorrentFreak learned that Nintendo won the lawsuit. The Colorado Federal Court ruled in Nintendo’s favour, finding the creator, whose real name is Jesse Keighin, guilty of copyright infringement. Keighin will now need to pay $17,500 to Nintendo.
During this process, Keighin chose not to defend himself in court, so Nintendo had an easy win coming its way regardless. However, two of Nintendo’s requests were denied – Keighin will not have to “destroy all circumvention devices”, and Nintendo’s request for an injunction against “third parties” working with Keighin was also denied, in part due to the fact that Nintendo didn’t name any specific third-parties.
Ultimately, the maximum fine that Keighin could have received was $1 million, so they escaped this somewhat lightly. Nintendo has previously successfully sued a Switch piracy services provider for more than $1 million.
KitGuru Says: If a big Switch game like The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom leaks again, do yourself a favour and don’t plaster evidence of you playing it all over the internet weeks before release. Nintendo has won one of these cases now, which would make it easier for them to go after others in the future.
