Yes, that's 1 example. Take Germany, if they catch you downloading some torrents they offer you a 800 euro "settlement" so you wont be brought to court. People are scared to use P2P in that country. And a lot of people hate the big power of Facebook, Google, and the others. They want their have their own "decentralized Youtube" and social media. So if SAFE works the way it's intended people use Apps on their phones without even noticing it's a P2P technology.
Now will people need to buy safecoins to download data from the network? Or just to store data?
If free to download, people may use it in lieu of downloading torrents. The issue then is if anyone would
be willing to pay (in safecoins) to just give away files... what is their incentive?