A chart topper in 1978, Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” has been played in thousands of baseball stadiums and karaoke bars and even performed by former Secretary of State Colin Powell at the ASEAN Forum, an annual security meeting for foreign ministers (“President Bush, he said to me: Colin, I need you to run the Department of State. We are between a rock and a hard place.”) without incident.

But its alleged popularity in file-sharing circles–particularly after the appearance last year of a YouTube video combining it with historical footage of Adolph Hitler and other Nazis–has drawn the group’s ire, as well as that of Prince, who is also reportedly part of the suit. “We are suing for damages of millions of dollars, and [suits] will be filed at both Swedish as well as U.S. courts,” Web Sheriff Chief Executive John Giacobbi told Swedish online business daily e24. “Many are asking themselves why they should be paying for content when it is widely available free of charge. But such thinking disregards the fact that someone has been creating this music or movie, and [has] invested huge sums of money in the project. Therefore it should be up to [the creators] to decide how and to whom their works are being distributed.”

Giacobbi, it should be noted, is calling upon other artists to join the suit in the hopes of giving it more critical mass and credibility, though his choice of artists may achieve quite the opposite. Said Giacobbi, “It would also be good/appropriate if the members of ABBA could take up the fight against these pirates, as they personify the Swedish music industry’s successes and are renowned ambassadors for Sweden, contrary to The Pirate Bay.”

One can only the imagine the fun the folks at The Pirate Bay, who’ve publicly ridiculed legal threats from everyone from Warner Bros. to Apple, are going to have with this one.