TL;DR No host can protect you and your data if you're served with a court order, not even Chmuranet.

I've yet to hear of any of the top dedicated server hosts like OVH, Leaseweb, Nforce, Online.net or i3D go for a regular seedbox user. As a seedbox user, if you get a DMCA at most they will forward it to you (if they bother to) and expect you to comply with their request in 24-48 hours.

All these hosts care about is making sales and earning money. OVH did not suspend WCD's servers because they didn't want to host them anymore, but because they were served with a court order by the French law enforcement and were forced to shut down WCD. OVH was probably would have been more upset about losing a client with 12 dedicated servers being renewed monthly.

No host can protect you from a court order. If they get served, they're not going to fight back for you. Similarly, if YISP was served with a court order to shut down and hand over Chmuranet's server, YISP would do nothing to fight back for Chmuranet. They wouldn't find it worth putting their own necks on the line for one single client. On the plus side, you don't register your details with Chmuranet but if you made payments through a gateway that records your identity or IP, or if you had any sort of logging enabled on your VPS, you're still liable to be caught if you were doing something super illegal. But you will most likely lose all your data if you didn't have backups in place.

At the end, unless you're hosting a torrent site that propagates the piracy of 42 million euros worth of illegal content, you'll be fine renting from any host out there. I have alot of respect for Chmuranet and its owners, but its obvious that kicking OVH in the nuts at this stage would prove to be a good marketing move for Chmuranet. Not looking to start an argument, just stating the obvious.