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?
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.
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.
yt-dlp streams those chunks into the final file tbh so it should be fine.
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.