NAB: Gordon Smith Takes Aim at Industry's Ruthless Adversaries
Says Google, Wiki turned piracy debate into censorship issue;
cable/satellite ops don't want to pay fair share for programming
4/16/2012 01:39:04 PM Eastern  Complete Coverage: 2012 NAB Show
NAB President Gordon Smith took aim at Google and Wiki on one
hand and "some cable operators" on the other Monday in a speech
to broadcasters about the ability of its "ruthless, smart and
well-financed" adversaries/competitors.  Those appeared to
include cable operators on the retrans front and the technology
community on the content-protection front.  In a keynote speech
to the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las
Vegas Monday, Smith told his audience that Google and Wiki had
taken a lesson from broadcasters' playbooks to "create  And
while broadcasters had leveraged their power to protect TV
stations in the spectrum auction debate, he suggested, the
Googles and Wikis had used theirs to change the debate from
"thou shalt not steal," to "do