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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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[–] snekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 days ago (3 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

[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

YouTube is going to be better than that since it will be https and thus tls encrypted. The only thing your ISP sees is that you transferred something from youtube.

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