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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If someone in the family buys stuff and then makes copies to distribute to family members, of course you shouldn't turn them in. But if someone in your family habitually downloads illegal materials? Obviously you should try to get the person to stop on his or her own. If that doesn't work, a small run in with the law and an appropriate fine may just be the wake up call that person needs before he or she progresses to do even worse things.
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... and at the end of the day, the only way to stop piracy is education - making it socially unacceptable to download copyrighted material without paying for it. An analogy would perhaps be drink driving - 30 years ago in the UK it was of course illegal, but vast numbers of people did it. Today, after a generation of public education, people who are convicted of drink driving are "social pariahs", treated with contempt by all.