Swedish authorities and anti-piracy groups are taking extreme measures to shut down The Pirate Bay . Their latest trick is to use child pornography as a tool in their war on piracy. Ethical? No. Effective? Could be. Meet the people behind The Pirate Bay Conspiracy.

Pirate Bay admin Brokep identified some of the key players conspiring against the popular BitTorrent tracker.

First of all the Swedish anti-piracy lobby groups. They stated at an official meeting in Stockholm that child porn could be used for anti-piracy issues. Most people will probably agree that child porn is sick, but using it to filter the Internet is just disgusting. They should devote their time to catch people who upload that stuff instead. Or are they so desperate that they are uploading it themselves, so they have an argument to shut The Pirate Bay down? Let’s hope not.

The second key player in The Pirate Bay conspiracy is Stefan Kronquist, who works for the IT-crime section at the State criminal police department. According to TPB admin brokep, Steven is the person in charge of the Pirate Bay case. Brokep adds: “Stefan is probably mad at us for me fighting with them over the Kopimi.com filter entry they admitted blocking wrongfully”.

Last but not least, Thomas BodstrÃ¶m, a former Minister of Justice who’s known (and hated) for his plans to turn Sweden into an Orwellian state. BodstrÃ¶m was held responsible for the Pirate Bay raid last year, after the US gently pressured him into taking action. “He really hates us and wants to shut us down,” says Brokep. “When the election last year was held we even put up a logo with his face on The Pirate Bay in order to celebrate that he was in the losing side of the election and was no longer a minister”.

It now turns out that this former Minister is closely involved with Internet filtering. As Brokep mentions: “He went on to become the chairman of the board for the group ECPAT, a non-governmental organization that works together with the police in order to control child porn online, one of the big friends over at the child porn department and also one of the big contributors to the child porn filter. Is this just a coincidence? He has personal grudges, political grudges and power to control this.”