I'm sorry I didn't make this clear in the medium post but thats NOT what I was doing. The shorts channels weren't even monetizable. Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919770
It doesn't need to be monetizable. It's wholesale theft, not fair use, and like those terrible shitty "exposure" pages where they steal art, post it on instagram covered in watermarks for likes and views and the generic message "if you want this taken down email us!! 100 emoji 100 emoji"
I responded in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919770
I'm not saying this to attack the OP's character or anything. This behavior is just clearly in the wrong and would and should be banned by any platform. It would have to be banned in order for a provider to retain their DMCA safe harbor protection, but even if it wasn't a legal requirement, there's no doubt it still needed to be and would be banned.