I know YouTube is a terrible provider of pirated content and also that it is almost impossible to pirate without a VPN, but I would like to know: if I download a movie from YouTube (directly from it, of course) without a VPN, will I receive “that type of message” from my ISP?

  • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    23 hours ago

    Your ISP cannot differentiate between weather the YouTube app is streaming the video or any program is downloading the video.

    No to be pedantic, but this isn’t true. If you’re watching via the YouTube app, the content is served via chunks, and not in one continuous stream. I’m sure it would depend on the ISP, but they could potentially be able to differentiate the two.

      • Xanza@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        yt-dlp streams those chunks into the final file

        This is entirely incorrect;

        --http-chunk-size SIZE          Size of a chunk for chunk-based HTTP
                                                downloading, e.g. 10485760 or 10M (default
                                                is disabled).

        Chunks are disabled by default with yt-dlp. You’re thinking of fragments, which are not how the video file is captured, just how its saved.