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I had a GitHub repo taken down due to a DMCA notice. What these buggers do is brute search GitHub to find suspicious links and perhaps questionable images. They may not even look at the repo at all and they definitely won't run the software to see what it does (they will search for cues in the documentation).

To avoid trouble, it is advisable to not discuss piracy in the repo or even hint at it. Problematic links should be encoded somehow so that they can't be uncovered by a text search. Also avoid using suggestive file or module names.

They tried to take down youtube-dl but GitHub fought back. Unfortunately, the copyright zealots will keep trying because that's how they make their money.