diff --git a/src/pretix/base/views/cachedfiles.py b/src/pretix/base/views/cachedfiles.py
index 3d39ffdf7..61b586185 100644
--- a/src/pretix/base/views/cachedfiles.py
+++ b/src/pretix/base/views/cachedfiles.py
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-from django.http import FileResponse, Http404, HttpRequest, HttpResponse
+from django.http import Http404, HttpRequest, HttpResponse
 from django.shortcuts import get_object_or_404
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 from django.views.generic import TemplateView
 
 from pretix.base.models import CachedFile
+from pretix.helpers.http import ChunkBasedFileResponse
 
 
 class DownloadView(TemplateView):
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ class DownloadView(TemplateView):
         if 'ajax' in request.GET:
             return HttpResponse('1' if self.object.file else '0')
         elif self.object.file:
-            resp = FileResponse(self.object.file.file, content_type=self.object.type)
+            resp = ChunkBasedFileResponse(self.object.file.file, content_type=self.object.type)
             resp['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="{}"'.format(self.object.filename)
             return resp
         else:
diff --git a/src/pretix/helpers/http.py b/src/pretix/helpers/http.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fd32d8bd4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/pretix/helpers/http.py
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+from django.http import StreamingHttpResponse
+
+
+class ChunkBasedFileResponse(StreamingHttpResponse):
+    block_size = 4096
+
+    def __init__(self, streaming_content=(), *args, **kwargs):
+        streaming_content = streaming_content.chunks(self.block_size)
+        super().__init__(streaming_content, *args, **kwargs)