Online only . IMT is their kryptonite on LAN . <| sep |> Someone should make rcommentLPTs or something like that that links to the real LPTs in the comments . <| sep |> It ' s hard to say without knowing more about the situation . It could be the result of lobbying by special interests like maybe cable companies . Or it could be a plain and simple money grab by the government . Or it could have a somewhat legitimate purpose . Example of a possible legitimate reason using electric carsSome states fund road maintenance with taxes on gasoline . Then , when electric cars become popular , the state finds itself having a lot of drivers using the roads but not paying the road maintenance tax since they don ' t buy gas . So the state implements a tax on electric cars to offset that loss . In this case , maybe there is a tax on cable TV that many Netflix customers are not paying ? Who knows , it ' s very hard to say because this article is extremely light on background info .