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It's hard to know what the motivations are.

I really think YouTube like a lot of tech companies will often just take the path of least resistance and say:

"Well that's a lot of DCMA complaints ... just ban'm if our magic script says to, whatever."

It seems like maybe favoritism to another big company, but maybe is just more a reflection of a crappy process and a tech company habit of just letting some magic formula decide and avoiding any extra time / resource consuming process.

Not to say I don't think it doesn't happen as far as some corporate to corporate pressure goes, but it's hard to know.