My point was that there is a large community that has gathered around the idea of sharing films. Large enough to make them want to issue standards. All I'm saying is with that size of community dedicated to sharing film, they should be producing more films. Especially if they dislike the current paradigm enough to remove themselves from its market.
If the skillsets overlap, that kind of shift towards production does happen. For example, the 80s game-cracking scene also became the 80s demoscene, because the various skills they acquired in cracking copy protection overlapped a lot with the kinds of skills that were useful for producing interesting interactive-art type software. It's not clear that x264 encoding and distribution produces skillsets that a particular helpful for film production, though, so I don't see a strong reason to expect them to start producing films.
