Suing Over A Bad Review?!? Come On!!!

While checking out other travel related websites to get ideas for how to improve/drive more traffic to this site, I stumbled upon this news article (http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,26197059-5014090,00.html) about the potential for travelers who post bad reviews of hotels on the web to be sued by the hotel for defamation!  Is it just me, or does this sound crazy?!?!?