Okay internet tough guy,

bittorrent doesn’t give you any protection against anything

Wrong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent

Each piece is protected by a cryptographic hash contained in the torrent descriptor.[1] This ensures that any modification of the piece can be reliably detected, and thus prevents both accidental and malicious modifications of any of the pieces received at other nodes. If a node starts with an authentic copy of the torrent descriptor, it can verify the authenticity of the entire file it receives.

Usenet is also usually better when it comes to finding stuff, because public torrent sites drop like flies all the time.

So? Sites may go, but torrents stay alive. A torrent will usually have multiple trackers, even after the site you got the link from is long gone, that torrent will work like a charm and is easily findable via any site that indexes multiple trackers.

Case in point - that rarbg release I sent? Yeah the original group and their site is long gone. Rarbg.to is the actual site, the one I linked is just a random fansite with the same UI.

Yet despite the site being down, the torrent lives on. Must be like magic to some of us, eh?

And Usenet downloads as fast as my connection can handle,

No, it downloads as fast both your and the server’s connection can handle. The cloud is just someone else’s PC, but instead of many randoms in usually Belarus, Brazil and Portugal, you rely on one.

Torrents will be faster, because you can download many pieces at once, unless you’re downloading from like a huge corpo DC in which case yeah, good luck with that.

without waiting for peers or needing to seed afterwards

Yeah, instead of a resilient system where as long as one of thousands has a file you can always get it, you use 90s megaupload.

and I don’t even need a VPN if I don’t want one.

Congrats, I don’t use one either and never have. Five eyes country BTW.

It took me barely lifting a finger to click one button, and then I walked away while my media server took care of all the rest. Finding the best copy available on the net, downloading it, finding subtitles for it, and importing it into my media library so I can stream it to any device in the world. Movies, TV shows, ebooks, audiobooks, music, it doesn’t matter. Anything I want, it’s fully automated from start to finish. I don’t even pirate anymore, because I’m not a peasant like you and I’ve got robot underlings to take care of shit like that for me.

Well according to the OP, its more like you press a button and your “robot underlings” download some random semi-related documentary.

Honestly you might just wanna hit up the public library and ask if they got it at this point.

Now, are we done stroking our own cocks, or do you want to swagger around some more like a teenager who hasn’t gotten their braces off?

The real difference between us is that I got a dick to swing about, all you got is air and sockpuppet alts to do your downvotes for you.