It is fallacious to suggest that the decrease in audiovisual investments in Australia directly triggered the announcement of streaming quotas. This ignores the complexity and the lengthy legislative process behind such regulatory measures. Such policies, targeting giants like Netflix and Prime Video, are rarely a ad hoc reaction to a simple economic figure. They instead emerge from prolonged debates on cultural sovereignty and the protection of the local industry, as in France where quotas were discussed long before any specific investment decline. Confusing a convenient pretext with a real cause is a fundamental mistake, reducing years of political advocacy to a mere temporal correlation.