Estimate of the number of identities stolen in the United States each year – 500,000 The cost of equipment needed to ‘clone’ telephone and make free calls - US$1,000 At the start of the 1980’s, video games fans in the United States alone could play 1.5 million games at 350,000 different sites In the original Space Invaders video game, a bonus flying saucer worth the maximum 300 points was supposed to be randomly generated – sharp-eyed players soon learned it appeared after 24 shots, and every 15 shots thereafter. In the first quarter of 2001, the market for US video games, already worth $6 billion, grew by five per cent in sales. Between May and June 2001, DoubleClick’s research group says Internet traffic was down by 1 per cent worldwide and by 3 per cent in the US. Worldwide, there were almost 300 million unique Internet visitors in June 2001. Venture capitalists have lost money for the first year ever, after years of booming profits. Portfolio values for the high-tech investors shrank by almost 6.7 per cent for the year that ended in March, 2001. There are over 118,326,000 current US wireless telephone subscribers