But as far as browsers are concerned http://x.com?y and http://x.com?z are two different URLs, right?
As a VDN (video delivery network) we're focused on 100MB - 8GB video files, so our clients' primary goal is to avoid ever having the file attempt to display in the browser unless as a media URL purposely supplied to an embedded player. In general a raw video file URL would be for a download, and forcing Content Disposition saves having to explain the "Right-click, Save As..." dance regardless of browser.