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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The ISP will know if the download of this TV episode is for educational purposes and allowed under fair use.
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I agree with most of the rest of your post, but in this case it doesn't really matter if the downloader is exercising fair use rights. If the site they're downloading from is not an authorized distributor, then the uploader is committing copyright infringement regardless of what the downloader does with the file.
Copyright infringement depends on whether or not the uploader is authorized, it has little to do with the downloader.