Kanye West apparently has a new mission: to sue The Pirate Bay.

Last weekend, West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store, so West pulled the album from his site and announced it wouldn’t be released on other streaming services. The Internet responded by pirating his album in droves. This naturally pissed off West.

“Kanye is going to meet with his legal team to discuss the possibilities of starting legal action against torrent site Pirate Bay,” a source told Hollywood Life. “He’s going to talk to his lawyers and see where he stands, and hopefully Tidal will partner up with him in any legal proceedings because it was supposed to be an exclusive release. He certainly feels he has a case, with the two factors he’s mulling over being copyright infringement and loss of earnings.”

Attempting to sue The Pirate Bay is a fool’s errand; West winning would be an incredibly long shot.

First of all, the Pirate Bay administrators would have to actually show up in court. Then they would have to lose the standard argument that hosting torrents is not the same as hosting pirated content. Then they would have to actually remove the torrents in question.

Oh, and this would all have to happen quickly (cases like these could take years). A quick check on The Pirate Bay shows there are over 9,000 users currently sharing the album for others to download at any given moment.

And they would keep doing so, even if The Pirate Bay disappeared off the Internet tomorrow. Even if all torrent sites and BitTorrent clients disappeared overnight, it wouldn’t change much. There was sharing before torrents and there will be sharing after torrents.

As we’ve seen time and time again, West has a better chance of recouping lost profits by offering his album on more platforms. But if he absolutely wants to pick just one, it probably shouldn’t be Tidal.