Removing one means doesn't tackle the motivation. If you want to impact change on crime understand the motivations behind individual acts, identify commonalities, resolve underlying factors. I'd wager financial inequality, polarization, mental health, substance abuse, and poor socialization of kids as a result of the dawn of the digital age are the biggest factors.
Also understand the isn't going to be one single solution. If you solve financial inequality the issue will still exist.
As long as you didn't republish the files you'd probably be just fine. Anti piracy measures rarely target the downloaders. Also as soon as we have that technology you'd probably be able to find those files for open use, currently there's communities like FOSSCAD that are dedicated to open source software. I see no reason for that to change.