Believe it or not, an 8-month-old's sleep schedule is leading to a face-off between California lawmakers and the entertainment industry over loud commercials on streaming services.

California Senate Bill 576 , introduced by state Senator Tom Umberg, would keep Netflix, Prime Video, and other streamers from blasting commercial volume way above the level of whatever show or movie you're watching.

Federal law already prohibits regular TV broadcasters from running commercials that are way louder than the program you're watching. However, streaming services weren't around when they passed the federal Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act back in 2010. So it doesn't apply to them.

Umberg's bill is trying to change that. The bill demonstrates the power of the Californi

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