Two postings on Slashdot today have interesting slants on the efficacy of the Recording Industry Association of America's tactics. In the first post, the discussion centers around a paper released by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, that suggests that file-trading volume is declining in the wake of RIAA lawsuits. Slashdot readers observe that "correlation does not equal causation" and alternative peer to peer file trading protocols, such as BitTorrent, are also a reason for the decline. And in the second post, referencing this Register article, readers learn that a Belgian watch-dog group is taking the music giants to court over CD copy protection schemes that make it impossible to make legal copies under Fair Use law. Or play the CDs at all in many computers, older players, or car stereos, sometimes with humorous work-arounds.