In sweden a gigabit costs around €70-80 for personal use (some have server restrictions), around €300-€500 for company customers (restrictions on reselleling bandwidth). Transit costs around €300-30000 for gigabit and only available only on certain locations( PoP, direct fiber to transit providers), there are also extra costs, like €150 for colocation at pop site, €50 for cable to the next room, RIPE is €1500 per year. (Needed to get own ips)

So I would claim that slow internet is really cheap and fast internet is expensive/bothersome. Torrent is a great solution for that. Ceph my favourite storage system has an automatic torrent generator for all files shared via their amazon s3 clone, rgw. All that is needed is to mark the file public and add ?torrent to the url.