The idea that this 18% decrease in investment could explain streaming quotas is a gross simplification of legislative processes. Public policies are never the mechanical consequence of a single figure, but the result of complex debates and industrial pressures. Claiming that an annual fluctuation triggers such measures ignores decades of political will aimed at protecting cultural identity, as in France with its historical quotas. Australian quotas are part of a sustainable cultural protection strategy, not a panicked reaction to a temporary economic indicator.