Everything you said was active verb, you said you just checked the site and there was nothing there about it, I found it in no time.
Tells me some people blow things out of proportions. It was easily guessable they'd do something like this long before they were forced to "reveal" it. Figure between two way postage and man power each cycled disk costs Netflix a buck (won't even bring in the highly complicated durable costs like buildings, equipment and the disks themselves, just sticking to the easy math of shipping and handling), with most of their customers paying $17.99 a month they have a clear cut business need to keep the average number of cycles below 18. And when you contemplate the durable costs that number probably drops to 14 or 15. Understanding that information it's obvious they would do something to lower the cycles as customers began to approach the threshhold.
For someone that doesn't care what Netflix does you sure do spend a lot of time decrying what they do.
you clearly aren't even reading other people's posts!
i'll now stop reading yours.
goodnite.