SE DMCA Against Private Server Streams?!?!?

Thread's TLDR:
8 twitch streamers claim to have received DMCA strikes from SE. Link to relevant post

• 3 received them while live and got a 48hr suspension.

1 youtube video was linked where that user also claimed to have received a DMCA. Link to relevant post

The DMCAs do seem to be real, whether they originated from SE or some third party can't really be determined at this time. But Thorny pointed out the high legal risk of posing as an entity to make a DMCA claim. The exact portion of the videos in teh claims apparently can not be reviewed by the streamers so they are unsure of what EXACTLY they did, for example:

• Did they say "I am playing on HorizonXI" at the moment indicated in the video.

• Or did they break some other streaming guideline laid out in FINAL FANTASY XI Materials Usage License

Some people think those who stand in defense of SE decision to take action, are being mean/bootlicky.

Some people think those who stand in defense of Horizon/Streamers, are being ignorant/entitled

Why did SE take action now? Some Theories Presented:

• Primed for Adventure, SE official ffxi stream, was going to go through some prechecks and noticed all the blatant private server streams and reported it.

• Horizon "ads" have appeared in comments on official ffxi posts, and this was how they responded.

• The crossover event with FFXIV means more community attention on FFXI so this level of private server content is a bit embarrassing and needed to be cleaned up.

• Someone randomly ended up on the page and decided to take action.

• It was not SE and was actually some hater who had nothing left to lose.