According to the Tuesday-released draft of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), a proposed global intellectual-property accord does not requires to push the international community towards developing "three strikes" protocols for the suspension of internet connections of customers who are caught downloading copyrighted works.

The formal draft of the proposed intellectual property agreement has been released after months of leaks, as well as claims by the Obama administration that it was a confidential national security secret.

However, going by a statement by the Washington, D. C.-based digital rights group Public Knowledge, the draft does not address the contentious issue that the US was "attempting to export a regulatory regime that favors big media companies at the expense of consumers and innovators."

Public Knowledge and other critics of the ACTA draft largely refer to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which underlines Internet service providers' (ISPs) responsibility in case the infringing material is hosted on their networks without the removal of the content at the rights holder's request.

Furthermore, the official ACTA draft has been pounded by the US, Canada, European Union, Japan and others for the removal of a controversial US-backed footnote that provided for "the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscriptions and accounts on the service provider's system or network of repeat infringers."