Ok, so obviously the maemo setup is still in its infancy...but, there is no reason for their official download site to be running at molasses speed. They could farm out a lot of their bandwidth to the amazon S3 cloud and not take any kind of performance hit.

The guys over at panic did that when they released Coda (http://www.cabel.name/2007/04/coda-one-week-later.html) and how much did they lose in cash for all this bandwidth?