Is this irony, or just hypocrisy?

While looking for an old SNL clip of the Sprockets to research a potential Halloween "costume", I thought I'd look for KaZaA Lite, thinking NBC wouldn't mind me downloading someone's old video-taped segment. When I did a google search - I came across this statement:

In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 1 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results.

When a software producer whose tool is perhaps the biggest threat to digital copyright holders EVER protects itself under the DMCA - is that irony or just hypocrisy?