[ksherlock]

Even before they started adding malware installers, downloads redirected through an extra ad page (and interfered with curl, wget, etc).

[JohnTHaller]

SourceForge has worked with wget, NSIS's inetc, etc for at least the last 10 years. We've been using it with PortableApps.com.

[ender1]

wget at least isn't affected, as long as you copy the link from the files page (the one that normally displays ads and a countdown timer in browser - it'll download the file directly with wget, since they apparently do user-agent sniffing).