Who is the Dread Pirate Roberts? Last Wednesday ... It all seems to have been an elaborate ruse, in which a scam artist (or artists) operating under multiple personas made off with $1 million ...

In the world you created over time, democracy didn't exist. You were captain of the ship, the Dread Pirate Roberts," she told Ulbricht as she read the sentence, referring to his pseudonym as the ...

Convicted Silk Road darknet mastermind Ross Ulbricht has been transformed from Dread Pirate Roberts to jail artist. The website raising money to appeal his Feb. 2015 conviction and life sentence ...

The U.S. Marshals Service later sold off the bitcoin in four separate auctions. The Dread Pirate Roberts (often abbreviated DPR) alias was created not by Ulbricht but by a still-unidentified Silk ...

On Apr. 9, 2012, Dread Pirate Roberts announced site-wide product ... Within a week, users accused tony76 of being a scam artist who never intended to ship any products following the sale.

Silk Road was controlled by a shadowy website administrator with the moniker Dread Pirate Roberts, who prosecutors say took home millions in commissions on more than $1 billion worth of drug deals ...

Life Imitates Art Imitates Life: The Dread Pirate Roberts Defense As you likely know, the name "Dread Pirate Roberts" comes from the book and movie The Princess Bride, where it's revealed that the ...

Cary Elwes was known for his role as Westley — a.k.a. the Dread Pirate Roberts — in the memorable ... so we were surrounded by art and things of an artistic nature. I became a mimic from ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts, head of the most brazen drug trafficking site in the world, was a walking contradiction. Though the government says he raked in $80 million in commissions from running ...

An artist rendering of Ross William Ulbricht, also known as "Dread Pirate Roberts," appearing in Federal Court in San Francisco on Friday, Oct. 4, 2013.AP SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge on ...

Similarly anonymous, Ulbricht allegedly ran Silk Road under the online alias Dread Pirate Roberts, an online alias taken from The Princess Bride novel and movie. Prosecutors are scheduled to ...

The online drug trade looked doomed. But Silk Road soon reopened, with a new “Dread Pirate Roberts”—Ulbricht’s alleged user name taken from the movie The Princess Bride—claiming ownership.