Netflix, Hulu, and the like do not offer arrangements to take advantage of this "five hour early morning window of unmetered downloads". I can explain how they could technically do so and still appease the movie studios, but they happen not to do it.

Even if you ignore prior art from 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States recently decided Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank to strike down treatment of "with a computer" as an inventive step. I'm not a lawyer, but I'd recommend that nonpracticing entities reconsider their business plans in light of the opinion of the Court.

But there is a copyright on the lookup tables to which game mechanics refer. Likewise, there's no copyright on falling blocks, but a judge ruled that Tetris Holding owns copyright in the seven 4-cell pieces.

What Google gets if it follows the OCILLA procedure set forth in 17 USC 512 is a safe harbor defense to accusations of contributory or vicarious infringement.

Agreed on point 2. However:

Of course there is. It's called publishing a white paper.

Dear Sir:

I apologize for replying 20 minutes late, but I have discovered prior art from ancient Egypt. You can expect Mr. Boundary's counsel to bring this up at trial.

Sincerely,
Damian Yerrick
Owner and Lead Developer, Pin Eight

Satellite's 10 GB/mo cap is even worse than Comcast's 300 GB/mo cap.

Sure it doesn't mean "bend over and give us all your personal information," like having to disclose your real name in a Google+ public profile in order to be allowed to comment on a YouTube video? Or perhaps it just means birthday.

Which brings me to a song by Bad Lip Reading with lyrics "Everybody poops and if they don't they're an Android and should be destroyed." This is sold on iTunes but also on Amazon, which also runs an Android app store. I'm not sure with which platform this song's theme fits. On the one hand, "Android [...] should be destroyed" fits in with the dream of Steve Jobs to go thermonuclear on Android. On the other hand, the implication that every other smartphone OS "poops" could be taken either way.

Even if it's an upgrade from 0.048 Mbps dial-up to 25.048 Mbps cable?

Of course they have a choice. They can move to an area served by FiOS, which ranked as more satisfying in a recent Consumer Reports article than Comcast or TWC.

I recently had to get my cable TV fixed, as the cable box wasn't syncing for more than a minute after being plugged in. After about six calls the "customer account executive" finally determined that I should bring the box in and swap it. During the last of these six calls, the rep asked me if I wanted to upgrade to 105 Mbps Internet. I told him my computers are too low-end to make good use of that, and when I see speed problems, it's usually on the other side. I forget what else I had to embellish my "no thanks" with to get him to back off.

I'd imagine that business-class plans are less likely to forbid this. A hotel, for instance, needs to share a connection with its guests.

How would a wireless mesh network reach from, say, Arizona to Indiana?

If the Internet connection where you live has become unusable, you could always switch to somewhere else. Compare this: I imagine a lot of people would like to move to a rural area, but they like the Internet more than they like the country.

Among some members of my family, I've detected a Grover Norquist mentality against any increase in entertainment spending. To afford another $120 per year recurring fee, they'd have to cut out something else. Cord cutters in countries where over-the-top video on demand (OTT VOD) services such as Hulu and Netflix are available recognize that everything but the "festering pile of social ills" that is televised sports is available on OTT VOD.