How do I stop sharing downloads with other family members

Ive searched the threads and can't find an answer to my specific issue, being....
My son, wife, and I all share an itunes store Apple ID for purchases. Our iPhones, Mac Airs, iMac, and iPads itunes apps are all in the cloud. How can we prevent when someone buys something on the itunes store from automatically downloading to everyones library??
I buy an album, it begins to auto download to my sons library when he opens his itunes library. If I try to uncheck the auot download box in preferences on his library, the same boxes go unchecked in my library. If I have to do it manually, whats the point of being in the cloud?
Do I have to get everyone their own apple ID for itunes purchases?

Are you all using the same computer login with the same iTunes library?
If so, you cannot stop it because you are all using the same library.

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