Some of the "pirate links" are competitors to bigger corporations that have competing products and services. The DMCA is used to censor small companies and bull

Some of the "pirate links" are competitors to bigger corporations that have competing products and services. The DMCA is used to censor small companies and bully other companies. The same thing happens with Youtube Videos, you use a scene from a movie or sound from a movie or song and get a DMCA takedown notice and your video is gone. Not the whole movie or song just a small part of it via fair use, if there is a fair use anymore. A friend of mine used a scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey where Dave Bowman is removing memory storage from HAL 9000 and used a text to speech program to speak instead of having the movie dialog speaking someone's essay manifesto pretending to be HAL 9000. That video got a DMCA takedown notice as well.