AFAIK they would get the info “which user said what”. The source would be what ever instance you are from tho, not your own ip. So the owner of a instance knows as much as everyone else.

I always thought that people hired to pen test are white hat hackers? What is the difference to red team?

I think they meant your info being sold on dark web markets, not your behaviour on the dark web being sold.

No, they just put it as background music in their videos, but didn’t actually pay for it. I would guess it constitutes fair use?

“Elementary, my dear watson” is a sherlock holmes “quote”, which is sometimes used to roughly say “it is actually quite simple”. Take away the “my dear” and the post roughly sounds like the “quote”.