Pirate sites do not make money through legitimate means. They monetize their traffic through aggressive, predatory advertising networks. Clicking on download links often triggers:

This refers to a notorious network of pirate websites that index links to third-party file-hosting servers. These sites frequently change their domain extensions (like .in, .org, .lol) to evade legal shutdowns.

Standard Blu-ray rips have very high bitrates (the amount of data processed per second). Compressed rips drastically lower this bitrate.