Nintendo wins in court against a gamer. The gamer reportedly provoked the company even in a letter.
Who took on Nintendo? Nintendo has taken legal action against the content creator “EveryGameGuru”. Nintendo accused the content creator in the lawsuit filed in 2024 of streaming pirated Nintendo games on various platforms. For this, he allegedly used emulators like Yuzu and Rujinx.
According to Nintendo, he did not limit himself to playing pirated games but also showed his viewers how they too could pirate Nintendo games and play them using emulators. He allegedly provided links to pirated copies and emulators.
Furthermore, Nintendo accused the content creator of showcasing games such as “The Legends of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom” and “Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door” before their release.
Gamer provokes Nintendo after “enforcement actions”
How did he confront Nintendo? According to the lawsuit from 2024, “EveryGameGuru” indeed took on Nintendo.
It is reported that the content creator wrote a letter to Nintendo on October 24, 2024, after several platforms removed the VoDs of his streams due to Nintendo’s “enforcement actions”. In this letter, he allegedly stated, according to Nintendo’s lawsuit, that he owned “thousands of temporary channels”. The lawsuit also quotes him saying: “Can do this all day.”
The online magazine Dexerto further reports that “EveryGameGuru” allegedly said something like: “You can try to stop me, but I will keep going.”
This is how the lawsuit turned out: According to the website TorrentFreak, a court in the U.S. state of Colorado has now partially ruled in favor of Nintendo with a default judgment.
The court ordered “EveryGameGuru” to pay Nintendo $17,500 in damages and issued a temporary injunction against infringing Nintendo’s copyrighted works, including through streaming and using Switch emulators.
However, the court also decided that no cease-and-desist order or other penalty for sharing links to emulators or ROM sites was justified, as “EveryGameGuru” posted publicly accessible links and there was no indication that he produced the technologies himself.
Nintendo is known for being highly motivated to protect its works and take action against potential copyright or patent infringements. However, an agency recently rejected a patent application from Nintendo that could be important for the court case involving the survival game Palworld: Agency rejects Nintendo’s patent application for capturing creatures, which could impact the legal dispute with Palworld
