Usenet is good for mainstream/relatively new content, but it's not easy to find less popular/old stuff there.
My experience has been opposite, actually. A couple times I got content from Usenet when all torrents I could find were already dead. (Usually I then seed those torrents, if the files from Usenet match)
I download all my linux ISO's through usenet these days.
Games? Or other software?
That almost costs more than actually paying for the content.
I pay ~$100 year and it's a far better experience than I've ever had with torrents
You also have to associate credit card info with illegal activity that leads directly back to your physical self. Pass.
Nope. Most accept crypto.
Well unless it's Monero, it's still just as traceable and you pay twice as much in various transfer fees.
nope, bitcoin, doge and many others are pseudonymous and as long as you are not retarded enough to buy it someplace which requires KYC, it is stupidly difficult to trace it to your identity. Especially in court.
Hasn't binary Usenet been dead for something like a decade? Anything on the public NZB indexers got DMCA'd very quickly even many years ago.
Well, there are also semi-private and private indexers. The binary stream size grows every week.