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I don't want to play the devil's advocate here, but you seem to have really singled out leaseweb. You'd be hard pressed to find any host that does't have some amount of illegal or stolen content, because no host has the resources to check every file on every server of every client to see if it's bestiality or copyrighted content. Not only would that be impossible, but probably violate privacy laws. As for legal proceedings, there are laws that protect service providers from responsibility for the content uploaded by users. Granted those laws weren't made with this usage in mind, but they MUST be in place.
What they are supposed to do? Some guy emails them that his content is on their network, and they are supposed to shut down every client's server because there MAY be illegal or stolen content? I bet they get alot of fake/bs takedown requests too. One could easily write a script that goes through say xhamster and DMCA's every video systematically. Many of their servers are self managed. They won't know if it's a tube site or a bakery's website on there.
Again, I'm not taking anyone's side here by why did you single out Leaseweb and not some other host? Why don't you have the same issue with CDN company's such as Edgecast and Level3? The same problem exists everywhere.
THe only thing i see leaseweb doing truly wrong that other hosts don't do is demanding european takedown requests rather then DMCA's. One the one hand, they do have a right to request the proper take down request for their local laws but on the other hand it's a way of stalling.
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