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I assume "file sharing community" is the euphemism for "movie pirating community", but I apologize if I made the wrong assumption.

If that's a correct guess -- I think the biggest reason is about hardware support, actually. When you have pirated movies, where are you going to play it? TV. Your TV or TV box very likely has support for H265, but very few has AV1 support.

Then the choice is apparent.

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What is odd is that the power-seeders, the ones who actually re-encode, don't do both. You see H264 and H265 released alongside eachother. I'm surprised it doesn't go H265/AV1 at this point.

You would dilute the seeding pool, which will already get diluted enough.

What I wonder is "Why still H264?" I guess it's because some people don't buy new video cards every 6 years and don't have H265 on their hardware.

Once can very well argue that 'movie pirating community' is more properly the dysphemism for 'file sharing community'. :-)

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