Meet The Man Behind Black Market Drug Site Silk Road

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The Dread Pirate Roberts On Trial The allegations presented in the Silk Road trial — which begins today — read like they’re ripped from the pages of a tabloid. Ross Ulbricht is being charged with being the ringleader of an Internet black market that traded in drugs, malware, and murder. His pseudonym: the Dread Pirate Roberts. Read More > SHARE: WATCH VIDEO  Adventures In Online Drug Buying FORBES tested out the web’s most popular destinations for buying illegal drugs online. The verdict: They work. SHARE: How Did The FBI Break Tor? Global law enforcement conducted a massive raid of the Dark Web this week. It started with the FBI takedown of Silk Road 2.0 and the arrest of its alleged operator Blake Benthall in San Francisco on Wednesday. But it quickly exploded from there. Read More > SHARE: Feds Shutter Illegal Drug Marketplace Silk Road 2.0, Arrest 26-Year-Old San Francisco Programmer Federal authorities have shut down Silk Road 2.0 and other anonymous narcotics marketplaces in what seems to be a coordinated global sting. Read More > SHARE: Alleged Silk Road Creator Ross Ulbricht's Fourth Amendment Rights Were Violated, Lawyers Say As 30-year-old Ross Ulbricht awaits trial as the alleged mastermind behind the drug-trafficking site known as the Silk Road, his lawyers have now filed two motions to drop all charges against the supposed “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Read More > SHARE: Meet The Dread Pirate Roberts, The Man Behind Booming Black Market Drug Website Silk Road Increasingly sophisticated anonymity tools have created a bustling online narcotics market and everything that goes with it: turf wars, illegal guns, attacks on competitors--and one philosophyspewing, multimillionaire drug lord: the Dread Pirate Roberts. Read More > SHARE: An Interview With A Digital Drug Lord: The Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts (Q&A) Most black market drug lords don’t give interviews. But the Dread Pirate Roberts isn’t most drug lords. Read More > SHARE: