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 56 points 2 days ago (2 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 47 points 2 days ago (2 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 31 points 2 days 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.

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

My ISP (like most ISPs) will just forward nastygrams from the content owners. Usually big companies like NBC or whatever. My ISP is a local setup (XMission in Utah) and only forwards them as a courtesy. They don't actually do anything. It's nice.

[–] gadfly1999@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day 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.