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Kicks, one of the things about DMCA is that if the party owning the site isn't responsive and doesn't take action, the host once notified really does need to get involved. This is doubly true if the whois information on the domain in question isn't valid or the domain owner cannot be contacted (say a registered letter is returned unopened or the owner cannot be served). At that point the host does have responsibilities to block access to the offending material until such time that the site owner can clarify their rights to the material.
Filing of a false DMCA report is actionable, so people can't just randomly dump stuff on hosts without backing.
A host that fails to take action in a reasonable time after notification leaves themselves open to further legal action, contributory copyright infringement, etc. Hosts may think they are safe but they have responsbilities as well.
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