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
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    5 days 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.