Before the UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT OFFICE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

1. As a followup to the direct testimony I provided earlier in this proceeding, I have been asked to expand on my prior testimony in three respects as well as to respond to certain issues raised during the course of the CARP proceeding. 2. In particular, I will discuss factors affecting the future trends of webcast quality, users’ options for obtaining permanent digital music files via methods other than “ripping” of streaming audio, and the distinct hurdles of providing streaming audio content over a wireless network. FACTORS AFFECTING THE IMPROVEMENT OF WEBCAST QUALITY OVER TIME 3. As I previously discussed in written and oral testimony, webcast quality is limited by a number of factors. Arguably most significant among them is the cost of bandwidth – a cost that would increase dramatically were a webcaster to stream signals at higher quality, since higher quality streams require a higher bitrate and thus proportionally more bandwidth. 1 However, even if webcasters were not constrained by