It's hard to tell exactly how it will affect YouTube, especially since we don't know how it affects results at all. I suspect the deciding factor will be how google knows about the takedown requests, since it will almost certainly treat YouTube specially. Furthermore, it's possible that YouTube is linked so much that the DMCA requests have a negligible effect.
Personally, I think this is a mistake by Google. No reason I can think of makes sense - this won't appease content holders for long.
> It's hard to tell exactly how it will affect YouTube, especially since we don't know how it affects results at all. I suspect the deciding factor will be how google knows about the takedown requests, since it will almost certainly treat YouTube specially.
And that is what is wrong here. Google is treating websites it owns in a special way, promoting them in google.com results unfairly compared to the competition.
Personally, I think this is a mistake by Google. No reason I can think of makes sense - this won't appease content holders for long.