However, Canadian lawyer and avid ACTA follower Michael Geist says no-one should prematurely predict ACTA's demise. "It may still eke out the necessary six ratifications in a year or two for it to take effect; but it is badly damaged and will seemingly never achieve the goals of its supporters as a model for other countries to adopt and to emerge as a new global standard for IP enforcement," Geist writes on his blog.

Intellectual property protection is a key theme of both ACTA and TPPA, with some observers suggesting TPPA could be used to relitigate swingeing penalties against online copyright infringement, including termination of internet accounts, which were eventually not included in ACTA.

A coalition of ICT industry and user organisations last week at the NetHui event hosted by InternetNZ. The campaign's purpose is to raise awareness of the effects of TPPA on New Zealand copyright and related laws. The Fair Deal campaign is run by a coalition of New Zealand organisations, including InternetNZ, the Royal New Zealand Foundation of the Blind, the Creative Freedom Foundation and NZRise.