Yes, and as I understood it the illegal part of torrenting was the upload, not the download.
That being said, just like possessing a pound of marijuana can be considered an amount with intent to distribute, the same can be said for having a NAS server with 20TB of copyrighted media. In addition, there are state criminal/civil laws to take into account as well.
Not even close to being the same thing under the law, not even in the realm of the same thing. Show me one case, even one where a person was sued or even implied that the amount of digital content stored on a storage server was considered "intent to distribute" for the purposed of copyright violation
>>In addition, there are state criminal/civil laws to take into account as well.
Name them, copyright is 100% US federal law. So what other laws are in play here