At least at one point news servers were in a kind of a limbo rights-wise. They were kinda like ISPs providing a service and thus weren't liable. Just like I ca

At least at one point news servers were in a kind of a limbo rights-wise. They were kinda like ISPs providing a service and thus weren't liable. Just like I can send you a copyrighted image via email and the email server owner isn't liable for the material on their drive. Also it's hard to track compared to the ease of monitoring public torrent swarms. With torrents you can just enter the swarm, log all IP addresses and maybe download a bit that it's actually infringing material. With news the stuff is ascii jumble spread in posts with weird names and you need to download it all to figure out if it's what it says. And just looking for material from the 300TB backlog is a huge pain.