The BPI has threatened the UK Pirate Party with legal action over a proxy website providing access to infamous file-sharing website The Pirate Bay. 

The music industry association attempted to resolve the matter amicably at the end of last month in a letter to the party’s leader Laurence Kaye, asking for the proxy site and Pirate Bay support to be terminated.

Kaye refused the request and said that his party was ready to defend itself from “significant threat”.

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