Torrents seem like the ideal solution for something like this? The infrastructure cost of hosting is shared by all those who find the content valuable. It also

Torrents seem like the ideal solution for something like this? The infrastructure cost of hosting is shared by all those who find the content valuable. It also has a natural cache-like behavior where popular content will be highly seeded, while unpopular content drops out. Interestingly, Peertube seems to be backed by exactly such infrastructure.