The idea that the decline in audiovisual investments has triggered the implementation of streaming quotas is a misleading simplification of the regulatory process. Such drastic measures are never solely the result of a single statistical event but are the product of a long-standing political will. To claim otherwise is to ignore the inherent complexity of legislation and the intense lobbying that precedes such decisions. For example, discussions to support Australian local content have been ongoing for years, well before this specific decline, illustrating that the decrease was only an opportunistic pretext, and not the decisive cause, to advance a matured legislation.