Nintendo takes legal action against a gamer. He is said to have even provoked the company in a letter.
Who is this to sue? Nintendo is taking legal action against content creator “EveryGameGuru” and is demanding up to 7 million euros (7.5 million USD) in damages from him. According to the lawsuit, “EveryGameGuru” streamed pirated Nintendo games on various platforms. For this he used emulators such as Yuzu Rujinx.
According to Nintendo, however, he didn’t just limit himself to playing pirated games, but also showed his viewers how they too could pirate Nintendo games and play them using emulators. For example, he provided links to pirated copies and emulators.
Nintendo also accuses the content creator of showing games like “The Legends of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom” and “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door” before their release.
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Nintendo probably provoked gamers
How did he mess with Nintendo? According to Nintendo, “EveryGameGuru” didn’t “just” play, show and distribute games illegally. No, he really messed with them, the lawsuit says.
The content creator is said to have written a letter to Nintendo on October 24, 2024 after some platforms removed the VoDs of his streams as a result of Nintendo’s “enforcement measures”. In this letter, according to Nintendo’s statement of claim, he said that he owned “thousands of temporary channels.” The lawsuit also quotes the words: “Can do this all day.”
The online magazine Dexerto also reports that “EveryGameGuru” once said something like: “You can try to stop me, but I will keep going.”
Copyright infringement in 50 cases
How does the sum come about? The lawsuit states that since the beginning of 2020, “EveryGameGuru” has “unauthorizedly streamed at least ten of Nintendo’s leaked games before their release” – in total he is said to have done this 50 times.
Nintendo says they are entitled to the maximum statutory damages of $150,000 for each copyrighted work as a result of the violations they accuse the streamer of.
It is currently unclear whether the content creator streamed 50 different games without authorization or whether, according to Nintendo, he streamed one game without authorization 50 times. The former would mean that Nintendo 50x is demanding $150,000 in damages from him. That’s a total of 7.5 million US dollars, or just under 7 million euros.
Nintendo only announced in September 2024 that they were suing the survival game “Palworld”, which was humorously referred to as “Pokémon with a gun”: It looked as if Palworld could get away with it – now Nintendo is suing the “Pokémon with a gun”. on Steam