Those who merely criticize the messenger, while ignoring the message, threaten long-term harm to their industry.
"We hope that with relief from this case, we will be able to stop the harm to this industry and return to fair competition in this market".
But if we can't prevent another lockout, there is a way to drastically reduce the risk of harm to the industry, fans and sports-dependent cities: change the rules of the pro-sports negotiating game.
Professor Oberholzer said that he had expected to find that downloading resulted in some harm to the industry, and was startled when he first ran the numbers in the spring of 2003.
"Furthermore, I ask that you expand the minister's reference to the anti-dumping commission beyond merely an assessment of the possible harm to local industry and prioritise the development of options for action under World Trade Organisation provisions.
Not surprisingly, insiders recognize the nature of the problems and their potential for doing harm to the industry.
Big Soda called the proposed soda tax a "job killer," a "slippery slope" towards more taxes and more government regulation and would do "irreparable harm" to an industry that provides "220,000 good-paying jobs with health benefits".
rules allow nations to impose temporary measures to protect their producers from a surge in imports if they cause or threaten to cause serious harm to domestic industries.
Today he sees similar harm to other industries like publishing and television (and he is serving as a paid adviser to Viacom in its lawsuit seeking damages from Google for allowing Viacom's videos to be posted on YouTube).
Simply put, these varying proposals go like this: given that the movie, video game and software industries continue to grow -- and file sharing's harm to the music industry is debatable -- additional fees needn't be exorbitant.
But this grotesque financial experiment, which has done only harm to the pub industry, should never be repeated.
