It's in the rulebook. In most cases the kids get over it. The long term benefits are totally worth it. We can't even distinguish where the line between small and 'big' is, so we let everything slide and move from stealing intellectual property to gun possession to destruction of our society. I don't want to sound like a 'hell in a handbasket' prophet, we still have hope if we accept responsibility for our actions and the actions of those around us.
People always have choices - some harder than others.
A part of the son's reality is a human dad. Hopefully, the father is sqeaky clean when it comes to copyright breaches et al. While I am completely in agreement that children need to be given ground rules and made to follow them, I think this rigidness on the copyright issue is pretty naive. In reality, it is not the artists who make big bucks out of cd's, but the record labels who issue them. The fact that it is Metallica who initiated the Napster lawsuit should say something to us, since Metallica are a huge band who release all their stuff on their own label.