Will they ever realise that every one would be better off if they made legally owning and consuming media easy and steamlined instead of spending billions on lobbying and propaganda?

Yes, you also need a usenet provider. Indexers are more like phone books/search engines to find the stuff you want.

Austria is atleast a real country (other than Bavaria) and from a recent travel to Vienna I can tell that Austrian is - while closely related to German - a language on its own.

It’s fascinating, I’ve heard it online and in person from multiple nationalities.
In our case it’s not so special because my mother tongue is German…

Atleast in countries with some sort of internet access. For example Cuba enjoyed current movies and shows despite a strict US/Western embargo through a combination of smuggled USB pen drives and a peer-to-peer radio network.

Mitochondria the powerhouse of the cell piracy.