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Nintendo wins lawsuit against player who kept streaming pirated Switch games and taunted ‘I can do this all day’ | VGC
Jesse Keighin told Nintendo’s legal team: “You might run a corporation, I run the streets”…
Nintendo has won a lawsuit against a streamer who regularly played pirated games before their release, while taunting the company that he couldn't be caught.
Last year Nintendo sued Jesse Keighin, who it claimed would stream games on various online platforms under his username Every Game Guru.
The lawsuit stated that since 2022, Keighin has streamed "at least 10 of Nintendo's leaked games" before they were released, "more than 50 times in total", the most recent at the time of the lawsuit being Mario & Luigi: Brothership.
It also claimed that Keighin taunted Nintendo, sending the company "a letter boasting that he has 'a thousand burner channels' to stream from and 'can do this all day'".
As reported by TorrentFreak, Keighin continued to taunt Nintendo's lawyers on Facebook, writing: "Should have done more research on me. You might run a corporation, I run the streets."
In April 2025, Nintendo filed a new motion claiming that Keighin had "evaded service" of the complaint, but was then served it through substituted means via both email and letters to his mother, grandmother and partner.
After Keighin failed to respond by the deadline, the court clerk entered default against him on March 26 and Nintendo asked the court to make a default judgement against him for $17,500 in damages.
A Colorado federal court has now granted Nintendo's request, and ordered Keighin to pay $17,500 in damages, but also said that two of Nintendo's requests for a permanent injunction couldn't be granted.
Because Kieghin mostly used emulation software available online, the judge ruled that Nintendo's request that he "destroy all circumvention devices" was rejected, because the request was "unclear" and "unreasonable".
Nintendo also asked for the injunction to apply to third parties who worked alongside Keighin, but the judge denied this too because Nintendo didn't specify who these third parties were, meaning the final judgement was simply for $17,500.
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