It's hard to find apps whose manifest doesn't request the INTERNET permission. Is there some sort of control within Google Play Store that would let the user filter apps by permissions?

Which would require first buying the app, after which point my ISP already has my money for the bandwidth used for downloading it, and Google already has my money for buying it.

If you archive a 4K video, you need to scale it down anyway before it'll play efficiently on a handheld device, no matter what codecs that device accepts. Besides, if you produced video, you may want to archive the source footage in its original format and a non-destructive edit decision list.

But does it have anticircumvention legislation (DMCA, EUCD, etc.)? Besides, the process of finding a country with acceptable living conditions and visa requirements, finding an employer to sponsor a work visa, and finally moving one's family isn't practical for everyone, I understand.

To an extent it depends on what your video is of. I'd assume that users of Internet Explorer 8 at home have far less disposable income than users of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or new IE. Will they be paying for your video or for the product that your video advertises?

It doesn't include video game footage or anything else that's edited because as I understand it, the video editing software needs to have its own licensed encoder.

Ever wondered what the "89" in GIF89a stands for? It stands for 1989. Unlike copyrights, patents encumber all implementations of a method, even those resulting from independent reinvention. To make up for this, patents last only 20 years, not 95 like a copyright.

Make it two decades and we'll talk.

Not so fast though. When I made a similar point, people mentioned that video providers will continue because they have the choice of decoding H.265 in battery-gulping software or H.264 in battery-sipping hardware.

It sounds like you want all scripts associated with an HTML document to come from the same domain as the document. Say a publisher (the operator of a web site on which an advertisement appears) ran its own ad server on its own domain (such as "ptb.example.com"). Would you be fine with that? Say a publisher established a CNAME for an ad network's server (such as "ptbgoog.example.com") and served ads from there. Would you be fine with that?

Google Play Store's permission screen doesn't tell you how much data an app can transfer in any given time.

If you are archiving a video that you produced, what's the big advantage of H.264 over VP8? VP8 is rate-distortion comparable to H.264 baseline, and VP8 is free today. An archival copy needs to be read by software, not necessarily read by specialized hardware in a battery-constrained device.

If you are archiving a video that someone else produced, most streaming video providers have a policy of implementing technical measures to prevent just that, backed by national anticircumvention legislation.

Unless you have to watch a video in order to gain access to pay your bill. Or do you prefer to pay the monthly surcharge for using paper billing and paper checks?

Gigabit per second just means you blow through a month of last-mile data in 40 seconds.

It is when you're trying to send 2160p video to subscribers behind local monopoly ISPs that routinely practice metering, congestion by choice, or both.

Say the complaint were amended to claim excessive data transfer over the Internet, based on the major cellular ISPs' overage rate. Cellular, satellite, and DSL in Iowa are all metered.

As I understand the logic, it's "If your apps didn't attempt to communicate over the network without my asking each time, my battery wouldn't be drained and my carrier wouldn't charge me overages."

Because cellular carriers in the U.S. have determined that the majority of cellular customers in the U.S. are willing to take such abuse rather than moving to Europe. See the Slashdot story "AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad."