Yes. First download failed for me...but my second attempt is now at 80% with 2.4 GB down so far...and it is still going. Perhaps DR was having issues with their servers.
For the most part, I think that folks are good if the procedure to manually create the ISO works for them. It worked for me.

Requesting an ISO download from DR directly, however, appears to be a nice legal (and perhaps less frustrating) solution for the folks who can't seem to create either the ISO or a bootable flash drive. There seem to still be some of those folks in the "student d/l" thread...and many folks (myself included) don't play with torrents.