Originally posted here by sickyourIT
now, i'm not a CS player. How much does it really cost per month, and how far would $10,000 get you?
When I played it, which was only about a month, it cost something like $30 just for the game after that it was free. I supose you could rent a server and that would cost more or join some subscription based server but there are many free servers open for the public.

Now that I've read the artile more close, it seems that he was using the stolen money to buy time on cybercafe computers.