Nintendo continues to demonstrate why my personal boycott continues. What a shitty company.
Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons
Submitted 1 day ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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0x01@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oh, it really bothers you that you can’t stream games before they’ve been released? It’s Nintendo’s fault, for everything, all the time! So much entitlement.
mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
Bait 🎣
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
What’s even more funny is that you’re downvoted into oblivion, while Iheartcheese @lemmy.world gets praise for the same stance.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 12 hours ago
There should be no restrictions on video game streaming. To hell with the poor corporation and their “pre-release marketing”.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
I guess “Fuck around and find out” doesn’t apply here.
Don’t forget to mention bootlicking in your replies, lemmys.
hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org 19 hours ago
all my homies hate Nintendo.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Nintendo doesn’t care if you emulate old games on stream.
They do if it’s a live event which I don’t really get. Modded smash bros is just not okay at live events but hacked Mario World was at GDQ.
All that aside these games were not only new, but unreleased. He literally could have contributed to lost sales from potential buyers watching the games before they were released.
If they went after some SMW hacker emulating a three decade old game, sure. But they didn’t.
pivot_root@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I don’t normally victim-blame, but streaming an unreleased game is really asking for it.
It’s one thing to pirate a game for yourself. That’s just called being poor or being someone who doesn’t believe in copyright. The only party who can argue they’re being harmed is the developer, who may or may not have received a sale otherwise.
It’s another thing to pirate an unreleased game and stream it for others. If you do that and receive ad revenue or donations, you’re profiting off of someone else’s work. Not only that, but you’re also harming the console modding community by incentivizing the developer to go after homebrew developers and emulator developers. It wasn’t a coincidence that shortly after some asshat streamed an unreleased Zelda game, Nintendo came down on Yuzu with an iron fist.
In conclusion, between pirating a game to enjoy yourself and pirating a game to play on a for-profit streaming platform, one of those two things is morally gray and the other is someone being a selfish fuck.
SatanClaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
I got banned from Xbox live until year 9999 cause one of the Halo games leaked and I had a modded Xbox. I didn’t play online and I didn’t stream anything. But my account it accrued achievements. And those fuckers are dated. Lol. Connected the ol Xbox 360 back to the internet to watch Netflix a few months later not thinking about it. And RIP lol
Eggyhead@lemmings.world 17 hours ago
He literally could have contributed to lost sales from potential buyers watching the games before they were released.
By allowing them to be better informed of what they would otherwise have purchased?
echodot@feddit.uk 6 hours ago
Well yeah, that will be their argument and legally it’s a good argument.
TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
By broadcasting spoilers and making playing the game pointless.
arakhis_@feddit.org 23 hours ago
all these n-word company dramas streisand-effect’ed me into being interested in legal switch emulation - I never knew you can even play switch online perfectly legal on PC if there’s enough gamers backing up lawsuit-bully attempts
but yeah this guy here not the brighest light, is he
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Dipshit was streaming game that hadn’t even been released yet.
x00z@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Good, that’s exactly what Shitendo deserves
dodos@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Is it possible to legally rip my games without a modded switch? I’ve been interested too but haven’t been able to get my hands on a modded switch.
arakhis_@feddit.org 17 hours ago
Better question: would it be legal if you couldn’t
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Mig flash dumper and a mig flash cart
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
However, as Keighin did not show up to court,
bro quite literally played the “sorry mario, the princess in another castle” card at them.
VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
what a sad life it must be to be the legal bully for a toy company, imagine wasting your life like that
LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 23 hours ago
[deleted]mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
Yeah, the two aren’t mutually exclusive; Nintendo is a shitty litigious company and the dude is a fucking idiot. The first rule of Switch piracy is that you don’t talk about Switch piracy, and this dude was blatantly streaming a game that hadn’t even released yet.
otp@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Yeah, broadcasting to the world that you’re playing a game that hasn’t been released yet isn’t a great idea. Particularly when it’s Nintendo. It’s pretty common knowledge how petty they are even with stuff that’s less flagrant
VagueAnodyneComments@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
why did you reply at me with a boot hanging out of your mouth
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
With the price they expect for games now, it’s going to get a lot worse for them.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
Why is everyone pretending like they have a right to play Nintendo games? Nintendo says they want $X, you say their game isn’t worth $X, so you get something different instead. What’s the problem?
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
It’s not a flea market. It’s a company that targets kids. Their prices are ludicrous, and will end up in another 3DS moment.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com 21 hours ago
You are comparing removing a physical object from a person to copying some data onto a flash drive.
arakhis_@feddit.org 19 hours ago
they are literally behaving like apple.
and if theres no eu to regulate them fast enough, there will be free feast (keep in mind consuming games is very present in the culture of society in 2025) for predatory practices like price gauging or denying accessibility through emulation. Whats next, paying for voice chat? and after that, id verification and giving up all data rights for that as requirement to boot the consoles? all that while literally doing this in the most aggressive forms
Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
Did they spring for Dolby vision/atmos this time or cheaped out again?
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
What if you own the copy but also have a copy
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
He was streaming an unreleased copy. Good luck owning that.
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 9 hours ago
Come on… We are not talking about streamimg an old game (modified or not) on an emulator.
The guy played a game before it was even released and streamed it… And not only once, but with 10 different games. What an idiot… Was probably warned and ignored it, just like the court hearing…
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
If he didn’t sign an NDA, then this sounds like a bullshit suit.
gamer@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
So? Maybe there’s a case against him for regular piracy, but streaming a game pre-release doesn’t seem like anything remotely close to copyright infringement. If anything, it’s journalism and protected speech.
If a leak causes damage to Nintendo’s marketing plans, then Nintendo shouldn’t have let it leak in the first place. That’s negligence on their part.
Of course idk the full story here. Not showing up to court and handing Nintendo a default judgement is stupid.
Katana314@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
If something that would normally be copyrightable is leaked, then the only people who have legal rights to that work are still the original owners. Anyone taking/sharing it is breaching copyright.
Different case for something someone recorded/created themselves, ex recording police abuse on their phone.
I know some people have a misguided view of “But you didn’t register copyright, it’s not copyrighted”. That’s the opposite of how it works. Rights are granted at time of creation; copyright is a “granted” right as part of sale/viewing managing how something can be shared.
Otherwise, a photographer that takes a picture of a rare Snipe can have that photo “legally” stolen before they make it to a lawyer.
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
For all its shit with killing fan projects, tournaments, and frivolous lawsuits, this is actually a legitimate case.
Orangutanion@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
And yet, because of all that other shit, I still don’t support Nintendo.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
sane companies “leak” their upcoming games to influencerson purpose as part of their marketing strategy.
nintendo, once again, chooses to treat their most dedicated fans like shit.