Nintendo is suing a small content creator who allegedly spent months live-streaming pirated Switch games before their street date. Aside from sharing unauthorized footage from the likes of Mario and Luigi: Brothership and The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, the streamer even taunted the Japanese gaming giant's legal team.
The Switch was first jailbroken in 2018, shortly following its one-year release anniversary, thanks to a physical vulnerability that has since been patched. This accelerated the development of the console's emulators, and made it easy for pirates to disseminate Switch games even before their official release, according to some legal arguments Nintendo has made in the past.
Pocketpair offers an update on Nintendo's patent infringement lawsuit against Palworld, revealing the first concrete details about the case.
Some of these claims have now been repeated in a new lawsuit that Nintendo filed against Jesse Keighin, a Colorado resident operating a number of social media channels called Every Game Guru. The complaint, filed in a Colorado federal court on November 6 and first spotted by 404 Media, claims that Keighin has repeatedly violated Nintendo's copyright by live-streaming unreleased Switch games. He continued to do so even after the company's attorneys...
