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Silk Road
It was the arrest that changed how people looked at the internet. On Oct. 1, 2013, 29-year-old Austin native Ross Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI in the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Library for the contents of his laptop. What was on there was the key to a massive criminal endeavor known as the Silk Road: a secretive black market for drugs, guns, whatever, paid for with Bitcoin and shipped using the regular postal service. Ulbricht was the mastermind, operating under the screen name Dread Pirate Roberts.
It was immediately a hot story (hit men? Cybercrime? Smuggling?
Silk Road
It was the arrest that changed how people looked at the internet. On Oct. 1, 2013, 29-year-old Austin native Ross Ulbricht was arrested by the FBI in the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco Library for the contents of his laptop. What was on there was the key to a massive criminal endeavor known as the Silk Road: a secretive black market for drugs, guns, whatever, paid for with Bitcoin and shipped using the regular postal service. Ulbricht was the mastermind, operating under the screen name Dread Pirate Roberts.
It was immediately a hot story (hit men? Cybercrime? Smuggling?
Silk Road Review: Intriguing but Undercooked Drama About the Dark-Web Drug Site
Nick Robinson plays Ross Ulbricht, who thought selling illegal narcotics on the Internet made him a crusader.
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Director: Tiller Russell
With: Nick Robinson, Jason Clarke, Katie Aselton, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lex Rabe, Will Ropp.
When a dramatic feature film gets made out of an investigative magazine article, there’s usually some conventional heroic hook to it (the fight against corporate malfeasance, a think-different athlete or artist). But not always. “Silk Road,” written and directed by Tiller Russell, is
Silk Road Review: Dark Web Mastermind Gets a Choppy Biopic
Silk Road Review: Dark Web Mastermind Gets a Choppy Biopic
Ross Ulbricht, the infamous Dread Pirate Roberts , creates the Silk Road marketplace to sell drugs on the dark web.
Silk Road tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht; the infamous dark web mastermind better known as his online moniker, Dread Pirate Roberts . A brash egomaniac with an ultra-libertarian, anti-government philosophy, Ulbricht created the Silk Road , an untraceable Amazon-esque marketplace for narcotics and illegal goods on the internet. The film charts his meteoric rise and fall, in tandem with the unhinged DEA agent who initially found him.