Copyright infringement happens on every site on the internet that enables users to upload and share content. Placing reasonable limits on file upload + sharing can dramatically reduce a site's usefulness for piracy.
This simple change also has significant benefits for reducing infrastructure cost risks, and if it doesn't impact the business use case, doesn't really have downsides.
As always, product designers can think about how to provide users that have greater levels of trust the ability to bypass these limitations, as a form of a graduated feature.