In a shock decision sparking international outrage, US President Donald Trump has granted a full pardon to Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the notorious Silk Road website – an online black ...

In 2015, Ulbricht, who went by the dark-Web sobriquet Dread Pirate Roberts—a reference to a shifting character in “The Princess Bride”—received two life sentences without the possibility ...

Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after US President Donald Trump made good on his promise to issue a federal pardon upon taking office.… Otherwise known by his online handle ...

Ross William Ulbricht, known online as Dread Pirate Roberts, was indicted in the U.S. District Court in Maryland on charges of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, attempted witness ...

In 2011, Ulbricht—who used the moniker “Dread Pirate Roberts”—founded Silk Road, an anonymous e-commerce site on the Tor network that allowed users to conceal their computer’s IP address ...

Despite calling for the death penalty for drug dealers, president Donald Trump pardoned Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht, the man behind the seminal online drug marketplace Silk Road, which ...

When users signed up for the website, which went live in 2011, they were greeted by a message from the founder, “Dread Pirate Roberts”, the hero of the film, explaining how the site worked.

Dread Pirate Roberts is the anonymous owner and operator of the Silk Road, the anonymous marketplace where people can buy illegal drugs online. This is the Silk Road's second go-around - it was ...