Dangers of Imaginary Property Laws

[owsf2000]

"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.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Looks like they weren't content to screw up the Silver Lining, they also shook up Infinity Ward by firing the people in charge. Great way to thank them for putting a billion dollars in Activision's bank account I suppose with Modern Warfare 2 but what do I know. (Yeah, plenty of articles about it over on Kotaku.)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

It used to be that EA was the Big Evil of the video games industry, no contest, but these days I honestly can't decide whether Activision has managed to steal their crown yet or not. If they haven't, they likely will soon.