You are probably right about all takedowns being done through DMCA. I wish Google was more clear about it. Your Reddit guide was very good but I would still no

You are probably right about all takedowns being done through DMCA. I wish Google was more clear about it. Your Reddit guide was very good but I would still not call a strike the same thing as a DMCA notice. YouTube doesn't have to have a strike system, they do that to placate the major rights holders who don't want to deal with serial offenders so that there's not a big court battle about whether YouTube knows they are uploading copyrighted content. ContentID serves the same purpose, to shield YouTube from liability. But YouTube lets copyright holders abuse these tools and so far has gotten away from trouble for doing so.