June 30th, 2008 I received the following email today from Netflix: I’m sure a lot of you don’t know about Netflix’s profiles feature, but it’s a really neat system that allows folks to allocate movies to friends or family on the same account. For example, I currently use the ‘3 movies out at a time’ plan, and I allocate 1 at a time to Michelle, and 2 at a time to me. This allows Michelle and myself to keep separate Queues of movies that we want to watch, while guaranteeing that at any given time we each have something we’d like. This (amongst dozens of other reasons) is what makes the service so easy to use.

Anyway, a few weeks ago the Netflix team announced that the pr