> Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents? In addition to the other answers, Usenet binary newsgroups are much older th

> Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents? In addition to the other answers, Usenet binary newsgroups are much older than torrents. So another reason is that it simply never died. Torrents didn't replace Usenet, they just complemented it.