FtA -

As of today, your channel, TubaPeter.com, will no longer have access to monetization tools associated with YPP because it doesn’t meet the new threshold of 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers.

But, oddly, that copyright issue is not why they demonetized the videos.

Agreed, nothing to see here. He uploaded infringing property, tried to make profit, Youtube disabled his profit (for a different reason), he complains to ArsTechnica.

I mean, if it'd make him happier, Youtube can disable his channel completely for infringement.