Comments on: Sam Bulte to Michael Geist

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 08:15:01 +0000

You obviously know little about Canadian politics. Liberals have been in power for over a decade here and have become the most arrogant self entitled hacks you can imagine. They campaign like your Democrats but govern like your Republicans.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:38:49 +0000

liberal mp, ha, don’t make me laugh. Copyrights go against every liberal principle.

Shes nothing but a bought and paid for politician. Not only that, she also sounds like a ruthless bitch.

You certainly wouldn’t want people like that running your goverment.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:49:02 +0000

Perhaps Ms. Bulte is also going to proposed reforming the laws regarding defamation, slander, and libel to be more in line with, oh, let’s say Malaysia……

Seriously though, as a “public figure”, she has a higher burden of proof to sustain in order to prevail in a defamation suit. As a professional politician, it’s likely near impossible for her to prevail unless the disparager’s conduct were so egregious as to be almost absurd.

To even get to discovery, she has to provide some evidence of false statements. The publication of opinion or erroneous conclusions (reasonably) based on verifiable facts isn’t nearly sufficient.

Instead of wasting all of that lovely money she got from Cartel Canada on lawyers, she might consider dermal enhancement treatments to develop a thicker skin.

–TG

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:28:14 +0000

Really, you should know better than to question the status quo. When you start doing that all the ordinary people start thinking about the way they want their country governed. Everyone starts getting upset.

Couldn’t you just let Bulte quietly win the election and keep quitely screwing us?

All this public debate is so un-needed.

/sarcasm.

Stick it to her man!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:34:29 +0000

This one’s a bit OT.

“…Canadian Recording Industry Association of America…”

The “of America” part just about slipped right by me.

Thats funny.

Sam Bulte is not funny, and unfit for public office. That’s just my opinion.
(don’t wanna get sued for libel)

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:01:55 +0000

Is she going to sue you too, Jon? That would be interesting

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:21:31 +0000

Bulte has really lost it. While she may have some lawyer friends from the legacy industry associations she is friends with, threatening a lawyer with a lawsuit is kinda amusing.

Her friends may just rein her in soon. They are going to know that the more she blabbers on in public the more people will look into what is going on and the more people will realize that her friends oppose, not support, Canadian creativity and Canadian creators. These folks have been able to get away with their scam for so long because people have been confused, but once they are exposed to reality things will change.

Hmmm.. Maybe without knowing it, Bulte will end up inadvertently helping us.

BTW: Please sent letters to your candidates to inform them on this issue!
http://www.digital-copyright.ca/node/1788

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:05:34 +0000

and she would be suing them into voting for her

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:05:01 +0000

hmmm, probably not the *RIA, unless she ment she was going to sue ~700 people every few months.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 02:50:56 +0000

A lawsuit? Why, I wonder who’s been giving her that advice