As more and more of "our lives" are live online, this is going to be an issue we must confront. On one hand, we need to admit the hard realities that the intern

As more and more of "our lives" are live online, this is going to be an issue we must confront. On one hand, we need to admit the hard realities that the internet is a physical network that requires real world resources, and every time we pretend that limited resources are unlimited we end up in trouble. On the other hand we can't say, you've reached your cap, so we are in the right to charge you to utilize public resources or attend "online protests" (I realize this immediately runs into net neutrality issues).