: The profitability of movies influences the types of projects that get greenlit. High piracy rates can discourage investment in certain genres or types of films, potentially stifling creative diversity.
This is where it gets interesting. DS was a relatively small, short-lived scene group active around 2009–2012. They specialized in “re-encodes”—taking full BluRay ISOs and squeezing them into tidy .mp4 containers for portable devices and early media streamers (think original Apple TV and Xbox 360). Pirates II Stagnetti-s Revenge 720p BluRay-DS-.mp4