Yeah Usenet was crap for binary downloads long before the BitTorrent protocol was invented.

It’s just so under the radar that it continues to plod along.

True.

I agree but I think fundamentally the smart tv hardware is so cheap to bundle in (and gives them hope of revenue) that it probably doesn’t add to the price.

Just set the default HDMI input to something else and ignore.

Did you mean PS2? There’s about a decade between N64 and PS3.

They’re great for server side, but personally I wouldn’t use one as a streaming client.