Ya.  If it was designed like that to purposely discourage 
mass downloads, it was messy but clever.

Fortunately, the redirection time was relatively slow (a 
factor they have little control over).  If the redirection 
was faster I don't think I would have noticed it.  Thank 
goodness for latency.

The web designers deserve an E for effort for that one, 
though.  nice try ;-) hehe