Dangers of Imaginary Property Laws

"The jist of it works like this: Owners of a Copyright have to defend their copyright against any form of copyright abuse--or they lose it. "

No. That is NOT how it works.

I was going to write up a lengthy note regarding the differences between patents, copyright, and trademarks (trademarks are what need to be defended or you lose it.) but instead this is all I will say in response to what someone said in the Kotaku comments regarding the Silver Lining and why Activision just HAD to crush the fan game.