Is it possible to do the same thing to astraweb that was done to Easynews ??? The obvious reason being 10$/8€ for unlimited bandwidth compared to Easynews steep prices. thanks.
There was an addon over at xbmc.org which may work for you called nzbs with various derivitives depending on your indexing site that "allowed" you to stream directly from usenet. For example being the lazy git I am these days I use nzbmatrix for simplicity so needed the nzbs addon installed and configured and then the nzbmatrix derivitive to call the movie/tv show you wanted to watch.
The only problem for me was I could never get it to work, I have a friend who put in the exact same settings as me and it worked for him though, but it put his pc up at 100% cpu usage with a screaming fan,.
I ended up giving up on it as the addons authors technical support consisted of "I learned to program you do the same", which is fair enough it was his work and he can support it or not, but I decided that waiting 20 minutes for a film to download was easier than me tearing my hair out trying to get the thing to play instantly.