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Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Forget Porn, Your Boss Is Now Worried About Basketball, Apparently

CBS' decision to stream NCAA tournament games for free, rather than charging for subscriptions, looks to be paying off, as it says it's delivered more than 14 million streams since the tournament began last week. But despite the excitement of March Madness, and the success of the online offering, somebody's got to rain on the parade, and this time it's somebody decrying all the "lost productivity" businesses suffer due to employees watching online. Of course, this guy happens to sell equipment to companies that want to block their employees from accessing particular kinds of online content, so he probably doesn't have a bias.

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