It’s been like this for a while now. Do a specific search, IE, search within the website. For example Ryu site:shoryuken.com

Google has always taken DMCA complaints afaik.

It’s only recently that complaints have come in regarding filesharing sites.

I don’t remember seeing notes at the bottom or did I always overlook them?

you were overlooking them, its been around for a long time

yeah, nothing new as previously stated. apparently google is the devil in the eyes of the mpaa/riaa/supreme dick wads.