[toyg]

In Italy one of the first providers to offer "fiber to the building" (Fastweb) basically tolerated on their network a huge seedbox / ftp / file exchange that everybody knew about. This was better for them, because keeping things local as much as possible kept their costs down and real internet traffic light.

I don't know if that "thing" is still there, I expect the copyright ayatollah will have eventually cracked down on it.