By the way, SourceForge, Freecode (aka Freshmeat) and Slashdot were all acquired by Dice.com in September 2012.
I use GIMP on a linux laptop of course so it is the version in the Debian Stable repository (2.8.2 on Wheezy).
50 TB of traffic would cost something like $ 200 (if all downloads were from the US or Europe) to $ 450 (if all of were from South America) according to this page: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/?navclick=true#pricing
That's still a lot of money, of course.
1000 GB == 1TB
$0.08 * 50 * 1000 = $4,000
Or have I missed something?
According to [2] that file is 90.1 megabytes
So that one file used 122.5 TB of bandwidth in that month.
Assume for the purposes of argument this is 100% from the US and follows the cloudfront pricing outlined at [3], and per-request costs are trivial.
(10 terabytes) * (0.120 US$ per gigabyte)
+ (40 terabytes) * (0.080 US$ per gigabyte)
+ ((122.5-50) terabytes) * (0.060 US$ per gigabyte) in US$
= 8960 US$ [4]
It gets more expensive if people download from other countries, and 22% of downloads were for different files not included in the download count for the most popular file, which I used above. It would be trivial to top $12,000 a month in cloudfront fees.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20... [3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/#pricing [4] https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=(10+terabytes)+*+(0.120+US...
So not free, but not as expensive as S3 and friends.