The decision to invite Falkvinge dominated the run up to ITC, which took place in Manchester last week. Livesey opened the event by explaining to the crowd that she had had "people from the music industry shouting at me for the last few months".

Falkvinge used the ITC P2P panel to outline his party's views on copyright - essentially to outlaw internet disconnection in EU member states; to reduce copyright to five years from date of publication; to limit DRM; ...