Pre-loading Mass Effect PC adds "4 hour delay"

CVG writes: " Pre-loading Mass Effect PC from the EA Store adds an additional four to five hour delay to your download time, EA has admitted.
According to an EA Store e-mail sent to customers who bought the game using its EA Downloader, the huge delay caused by pre-loading (which is supposed to help you play your game FASTER) is due to "the un-encryption method". That must be a really, really bad un-encryption method"