I don't know about the rest of you on here but I work some weird hours and have slower than average internet. It would be fantastic if we could get the download for the beta a day or two early, that way when the beta servers go up we can hop right in rather than waiting a day for the file to download. The Beta is short enough and I'm going to work over it so I'm hoping to be able to jump in whenever I can, I really don't want to lose that first day waiting for the download to finish.
That would be nice if they did but the servers will already be up because some (like IGN) got it early so I don't know how they will keep people from playing it.