[Nadya]

No, not quite. Their main argument was that it was newsworthy and "it", in particular, was the video and not the article. The article itself could exist, but without the video. The video couldn't as there was a reasonable expectation of privacy.

They were sued because they refused to take down the video and their defense was absolutely terrible in every regard including joking in legally binding statements without going through and marking them as jokes/sarcasm: so they are taken at face value in the court of law.

Making jokes about child porn ("newsworthy if the actor is over the age of four") isn't how you win over jurors.