The article's numbers are a bit off, Astraweb has unlimited accounts for $11/month, also there's 1-2 providers who are offering free access to their IPv6 Usenet server (XSNews and I forget the other). There's also no real mention of NZBs and tracking sites that host them and offer indexing/filtering/searching (NZB is basically like a .torrent).
So you don't actually need to load up a full client and start searching all these different groups for files anymore.
So you don't actually need to load up a full client and start searching all these different groups for files anymore.