[milesvp]

My guess is if he’s using usenet, then he’s not bothering with VPN. Torrenting means you’re exposing your IP to anyone subscribed to that torrent. Usenet only exposes your IP to your provider, same way your IP is exposed to your VPN provider. Basically your exposure risk is the same with and without VPN, since all a rights holder needs is the logs from the usenet provider, and the VPN doesn’t obfuscate anything about this generally. VPN might provide some mitm data packet sniffing protection, and also some protections if you use anonomous pay for usenet, but otherwise probably not worth the effort. And if you were to go through the effort, then a dedicated machine with always on VPN is probably the safest way to go, since browsing the internet leaks an amazing amount of info about you.