"Jesse Keighin has been ordered to pay Nintendo $17,500 in damages after livestreaming gameplay footage of at least 10 different games on at least 50 occasions before the games were released to the public. Included among those were Super Mario Party Jamboree, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Pikmin 4. Keighin was served with takedown notices by Nintendo dozens of times for those streams."
"Yet he continued to air himself playing the games, encouraging viewers to support him on loco.gg, an Indian live-streaming and esports platform, if his other accounts were banned. Platforms would take the account down following Nintendo's complaints. But after that happened, Keighin sent emails to Nintendo saying "I have a thousand burner channels" and "[w]e can do this all day," according to the recommendation of the U.S. magistrate judge who oversaw the case."
"Yuzu was a target of Nintendo's anti-piracy campaign last year. The video game company shut down the emulator, saying the team behind it had enabled "piracy at a colossal scale." The Yuzu team agreed to pay $2.4 million and ended all operations. But in an email to Nintendo, Keighin vowed to "actively help people find newer and updated copies" of the software, which he said was "still being developed underground," according to the judge's recommendation."
Jesse Keighin was ordered to pay Nintendo $17,500 after livestreaming gameplay footage of at least 10 different games on at least 50 occasions before public release. The streams included Super Mario Party Jamboree, Mario & Luigi: Brothership, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, and Pikmin 4. Nintendo issued dozens of takedown notices and platforms repeatedly removed Keighin's accounts. Keighin encouraged support on loco.gg and emailed Nintendo claiming "I have a thousand burner channels" and "[w]e can do this all day." Nintendo alleges he released links to ROM repositories and used emulators such as Yuzu. Keighin ignored service, prompting a default judgment.
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