In Romania in the early millennium, my local ISP offered a DC++ server so that people in my city could share music and films with one another at lightning speed. (Besides the fact that piracy was simply part of Eastern European mass culture, it probably helped reduce their bandwidth costs to and from the wider world.). Alas, this ultimately disappeared due to ISP mergers and stricter enforcement.

hey us too! It was incredibly fast since we were on the uni's internet, and sharing with people all on the same campus. Was getting latest eps of TV shows and a huge variety of music faster than bitorrent was capable of

Same here. The server lived in our student library, there were also some very creative parody video of our university president and of various teachers that I unfortunately didn't keep.