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Smokey, you know the difference - ones of things like control, intent, etc.
Hosting companies that do not in any way control the content of the sites are considered "common carriers" or "innocent hosts". In the same manner that the phone company isn't legally liable for the content of a phone discussion, a hosting company (or bandwidth provider, or ISP) is not liable for the content of what comes down the wire, just that the wire works.
They aren't in the content business, they are in the service business, and thus have very little liablity when it comes to content. That being said, you can always send a DMCA notice to the host as a well as a domain that is using your copyright material without permission, and they are obliged to take action if their client does not.
If you rip a CD and put the MP3 files on your server, you are violating copyright. You host isn't.
Understand so far?
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