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?

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[–] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

So don't worry about it.

[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months 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.

[–] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nope. the ISPs track torrent downloads is by leeching off of the popular public ones, and checking if any of the peers have IPs that belong to them. not by analyzing each customer's traffic individually.

downloading a video off youtube makes a simple HTTP download which wont trip any ISP alerts. especially since it's a trusted domain like Youtube

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Most ISPs don't do that, content owners do then send complaints to the ISP who forwards them to the user. ISPs aren't going to spend money on losing a customer.

[–] Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

I work for an ISP (smaller, not a nationwide company). We genuinely don't care what you use your internet connection for until we get a legal notice and then we do what's required by law.