Nonsense, all of it here.
What we're seeing is another cynical Pirate Party sort of opportunist who wants to encourage his customers to upload everything without looking to ownership issues so he can make a buck, and make it very hard for legitimate IP owners to make a living. It's why Open Sims never grow significantly and never have any significant customer base. It's why people who move to them from Second Life still keep their SL stores open. It's nasty, vicious, and cruel.
The idea that DMCA notices are "misused" to "harass" people is one of those SL fictions that the copyleftist camp spreads. It's a total misrepresentation of the actual facts. The Lindens don't tell us how many DMCA or "DMCA lite" (inside the AR box) complaints they get and how may they satisfy, but from having personally filed dozens *and having them satisfied* in just the "lite" form, I realize there are A LOT.
And Google *does* tell us, and it works like this: they have at least 5 million (!) takedown notices a year, and they satisfy *the overwhelming majority of them*. That figure is something like 97%. I personally confirmed this with a Google rep myself as I couldn't belief it, so much was I infused with virtual world copyleftist propaganda.
The author writes this: "I have not seen any reports of infringing content on OpenSim Creations. And the only complaint I’ve received from a creator so far was not valid since the content was originally posted on the site by the creator
themselves. So it would be incorrect to label OpenSim Creations as a site where copyright infringers share stolen content. In fact, there might never be
any infringing content on that site."
Except...we don't know if her anecdotal account is accurate, and if in what happens in reality is that creators don't go there because they don't want their stuff swiped.
We also have absolutely no reliable data on the number of frivolous or malicious suits.
The Bern convention is international copyright law and that tells you copyright is inherent. That's a great start for virtual worlds. Copyleftists merely want to be in denial over this.
The DMCA is not "thermonuclear" -- that's again tendentious nonsense. See above, Google. What's really thermonuclear is the ability of Google and others with this geek creed to make a fortunate off it before they have to do anything about their piracy enabling. It's known as "the California business model" (let customers upload, look the other way, collect ad revenue, make money, force lawyers to chase you.)