LOL. I just use my ISP's newsserver, it's plenty fast and it's free.
The real reason I think NNTP beats p2p is that p2p is mostly only useful for downloading things you already know the name of. If I know the name of something, I can easily listen to a sample at iTMS or amazon and buy if I like. The beauty of usenet is that you can slurp a ton of stuff from the genres you want, and discover new music. I would say 90% of my CD collection comes from mp3s.