Even though I am an affiliate and follow the rules, one of my tube sites got slammed by DMCA notices and removals.
It cost me thousands because I built up organic searches throughout the years and bought traffic from PlugRush, among others.
Google defaults to the claim owner and de-lists the page that is infringing.
I can handle a few DMCA notices, but when it comes to thousands, I give up because of the time and effort I need to put into it. The time is better spent elsewhere in my day to make money.
I think affiliate programs should have a whitelist of domains that are affiliates so that their lawyers and automated bots can stop DMCA notices.
All the money I invested into
https://www.kernel-video-sharing.com/en/ sucks because of these DMCA notices where I am sending pure organic searches back to my affiliates.