Behind this metric of declining investments lie the hidden human costs of regulation that instrumentalizes figures. Linking this quota announcement to a simple response to the drop in investments is to ignore the deep political will and the affected actors by such measures, like young independent creators. The Australian government, like France with its cultural exception, often uses these data to justify pre-existing policies, not to react purely to a crisis. For example, quotas have existed in France for decades to protect cultural identity, long before any decline served as a pretext, rigidifying the market at the expense of innovation.