To your point about 'poor fools who get "lucky" IP addresses for certain content', isn't this what Bittorrent solved by design where popular content is actually

To your point about 'poor fools who get "lucky" IP addresses for certain content', isn't this what Bittorrent solved by design where popular content is actually spread more quickly as more people spread it out all over and then you just need smart routing to find the nearest cache of that file?