Is Apple CEO Steve Jobs prepared to announce iTunes movie rentals tomorrow? Netflix is sure acting like it. Over the weekend, it announced that it will remove restrictions on how many movies its customers can stream in a month.

Formerly, Netflix customers were limited to one hour of viewing per dollar they paid in monthly subscriptions. They now have access to 6,000 movie and TV titles online, with unlimited viewing. (By contrast, Netflix has 90,000 titles on DVD.) Unlimited, that is, except for those folks paying $4.99 a month to rent two DVDs at a time. But those cheap bastards get what they deserve.

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