"High-speed broadband connections, which Jupiter [a research organization] estimates are in 15.5 million homes now...afford viewers three-by-three inch screens...MLB [Major League Baseball] this season Webcast 10 pennant-race games live in their entirety, the first of which attracted 30,000 viewers in 64 countries...

"In a typical month, surfers plunk down $640,000. Because players make more bets per hour than they would at Caesar's Palace, they literally lose money to the house twice as fast...Every week about 2 million players ante up at more than 1,800 virtual casinos...$3.5 billion will be lost on Internet bets this year, about three times the revenue of porn sites."