Comment by jeffchien

Is it possible that people in your country simply got enough DVD burners that selling DVDs on the street was no longer profitable? Or street enforcement stepped up? I think that's what happened to Taiwan, at least.

Edit: People pointed out that PS2 discs had burned sectors that most consumer burners can't replicate. But I don't think that's really a complete answer as to why street vendors went away, considering Swap Magic[0] made disc-based piracy viable again in a few years.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swap_Magic