These moves have encouraged opponents of the agreement, who locally have responded to Computerworld's online stories on the European rejection of ACTA and Australian caution.

"This [international caution] should be a lesson for our negotiators and those who are instructing them," both on ACTA and the still-in-negotiation Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPPA), says Dave Lane of software developer Egressive in our online comments forum. "These secret international negotiations are undemocratic and as such, unacceptable."

The full and final ACTA text has now been .

For ACTA to take effect, it needs ratification by six of the 11 signatories: the European Union, Australia, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, the US and Switzerland.

Mexico has rejected it, Europe has voted it down and now Australia appears hesitant.