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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[–] Xanza@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dicksteele@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I was basing what I said on the http.py file:

while True:
                try:
                    # Download and write
                    data_block = ctx.data.read(block_size if not is_test else min(block_size, data_len - byte_counter))
                except TransportError as err:
                    retry(err)

                byte_counter += len(data_block)

I might still be wrong but that’s how I thought it downloaded any video file over http

Edit. After reading the code a bit more I see that you were correct.