You are indeed correct, of course, that direct public action would be the way to deal with a thoroughly corrupt legal system in a virtual world (a well-designed system such as the Metaverse Republic will have mechanisms for dealing with potential corruption: individual officers of state will be able to be impeached). In the case of the Metaverse Republic, the kind of direct public action would be very simple: mass unsubscription.

What I perhaps did not make as clear as I ought to have done in the original article was that such direct action can be the best way of dealing with things in some cases (such as, for example, where consumers refuse to purchase goods from a trader employing methods that, whilst they are not – and should not be – unlawful, are nonetheless undesirable), but that, in a great many cases, users of SecondLife and other virtual worlds have no option other than to take direct action, even when it is manifestly unsuitable or extremely inefficient, for all the reasons given in the original post.