FFII statement: The world faces major challenges: access to medicine, diffusion of green technology needed to fight climate change, and a balanced Internet governance. While flexibility is essential to solve these major issues, ACTA codifies heightened measures. More: http://acta.ffii.org/?p=779

In the Netherlands sharing a file is already a crime. The directive will not change that. The same situation may exist in other member states of the Community.

This directive is about forcing the member states to criminalise certain behaviours. They may go further themselves. It is important to keep the directive proportional, otherwise broad criminalisation will be all over the Community (Europe), and it is impossible / very hard to turn that back.

Inciting an infringement is not an infringement, but it will be a crime, as far as the EP Legal Affairs committee is concerned.

See also: http://www.ipred.org/
http://action.ffii.org/ipred2/

Besides this all we have strict civil law.