i find that everyone has broadband (at least that i know) so its more or less a non-issue
in the old days - Corel ( around the time of Corel 2!) Copeland was determined not be strongarmed by adobe for Postscript fonts - so he just ripped them off - and replicated them.
adobe was fumming mad - but all of a sudden Corel 3 came out with like 500 fonts ( unheard of at that time on PC)
i think the same sort of thing could be done now - in regards to web
"Hey did you hear the new IE supports over 500 dynamic fonts?!"
now dat would B cooool
* plus the more people used them the more theyed end up in cache