Kind of amazed Usenet is still a thing, I assume all the info is somewhere in the megathread how you find your nzbs and whatnot these days?
My favorite period of piracy was back when I did private trackers, and it seems like they’re still around but back then I didn’t have to use a vpn, can you get credit for your seeding through a vpn? I recall them requiring I actually forward a port back in the day. Not getting into any of that mess lol
I once needed to archive a site for offline viewing, and I did a similar thing, perhaps more primitive even, just maximized the video and then had OBS record the screen while I did other things on my second screen. Pain in the erse to be sure but I was able to watch the videos where I needed to watch them.