Guy Who Taunted Nintendo About Streaming Pirated Switch Games Before Release Now Faces $7.5 Million Lawsuit
Submitted 1 week ago by Rider@eviltoast.org to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-piracy-lawsuit-mario-luigi-zelda-echoes-1851693898
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misterdoctor@lemmy.world 1 week ago
icecreamtaco@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’m pro piracy and this guy seems like an idiot. Nintendo can have him
sundray@lemmus.org 1 week ago
Look, Nintendo is bullshit, bullying innocent creators for stupid, paranoid reasons… but c’mon. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
drspod@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
the lawsuit accuses Keighin of streaming leaked Switch games, including this month’s Mario & Luigi: Brothership, ahead of release using emulation software as many as 50 times in the last two years. Nintendo is seeking $150,000 in damages for each instance of alleged copyright infringement.
Hilarious that the screenshot Kotaku use in the article is his social media post with his recommendations of what sites to download the games from.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Kinda the reason i dont like kotaku tbh. They do such things very often and it always feel like they are taunting or flexing and it comes over as really douchy to me
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
No way that wasn’t absolutely intentional.
Lanusensei87@lemmy.world 1 week ago
For his next stream, dude’s gonna rat out the location of every drug dealer around his house.
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
No sympathy, it’s his own fault. Sure, enjoy pirates games but don’t taunt, stream and publicly shout where to get them.
Enjoy leaked games in silence and talk about it once it hits official release date.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Well, play with fire enough and you’ll get burned. No sympathy from me.
Bezier@suppo.fi 1 week ago
You did this to yourself mate
Beryl@jlai.lu 1 week ago
This idiot brought this on himself AND is probably at least partially responsible for the recent crackdown on Switch emulation by Nintendo. I won’t shed a tear for him.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Not to defend leakers even a bit and Nintendo has every right to go after them legally. However, the emulation crackdown is just Nintendo flexing their legal team on small devs who’ve done everything they can to discourage leaks from spreading within their limited reach. It’s 100% on Nintendo and they themselves are acting in a legal gray zone to bully 3rd parties into giving up. If any of the emulation teams had the resources to simply deal with big N, the situation would probably look a little different.
I guess what I’m trying to say is, yes leakers are in the wrong but no, they didn’t kill emulation with their actions even when it provoked Nintendo.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Small caveat:
The first switch emulator that was taken down (I think yuzu), was justified by Nintendo as copyright infringement because people (including moderators) were sharing copyrighted material openly on their public discord. BIOS files, links to games, and early leaks.
The more recent one (Ryujinx I think) was the one that did things right, so Nintendo didn’t have that copyright leg to stand on. So instead (according to the maintainer of the Mac fork) they sent goons to the house of the head dev in Brazil… to “talk” him into taking it down.