Kanye West/Peter de Potter

Kanye West recently announced that The Life of Pablo would only be available on Tidal, Jay Z's subscription music service. The internet, not too keen on paying for something it doesn't particularly want to subscribe to, had another idea: torrenting. Now, Kanye West has hit back.

Around 500,000 torrents for Kanye's latest offering were downloaded on the first day it was available. Earlier this week around 10,000 copies were being torrented on the Pirate Bay at once. Good news for Kanye fans.


But bad news for Kanye. And he's responded accordingly. TorrentFreak reports that he's "furious" to have lost millions of dollars and plans to sue The Pirate Bay. According to Hollywood Life, Kanye is in talks to take legal action against the site for hosting copies of his album.

It's not the first time The Pirate Bay has been the target of legal action -- a co-founder of the site was indicted on hacking charges, and artists including Michael Jackson have attempted to take the site to court in the past.

The Pirate Bay isn't worried, though -- staff member Spud17 told TorrentFreak that Kanye was "a blithering twat who has an incredible sense of self-importance. As for Kanye West suing the Pirate Bay - good luck!".

Even if he does win a representative from The Pirate Bay is unlikely to respond or pay the damages.