“[Dread Pirate] Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to tell me ...

Silk Road is back — and so is the Dread Pirate Roberts. A month has passed since federal agents gave the Glen Park library science fiction section the thrill of its life when they swooped in to arrest ...

Ross Ulbrecht of Austin, Texas, is an Eagle Scout, has a degree in physics and last year gave an interview to StoryCorps that’s still on YouTube. Not the original Dread Pirate Roberts, the character ...

Silk Road takes a commission on all of its sales, starting at 10 percent and scaling down for larger transactions. Given that those commissions are collected in Bitcoins, which have appreciated close ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a California man charged with operating a notorious online drug marketplace known as Silk Road to be sent to New York to face charges. Ross William ...

Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht, otherwise known as “Dread Pirate Roberts,” conceded for the first time Tuesday that he was involved in setting up the online drug marketplace Silk Road, but argued he was ...

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Catching criminals in the online realm often involves the old-fashioned footwork of tracking them down in real life. But the expended shoe leather still only goes so far in cyberspace, federal ...

There was strange trouble at Glen Park Library on the first of October, an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, in what's otherwise one of the quietest buildings in San Francisco. Around 3 p.m., a ...

The man behind the online illegal drug website Silk Road is 29-year old Ross William Ulbricht. He's also known as Dread Pirate Roberts. Earlier this week, federal agents arrested him on charges ...

Jeff Sneider is the Senior Film Reporter at Collider, where he breaks film and television news and curates the Up-and-Comer of the Month column in addition to hosting The Sneider Cut podcast and the ...