His pseudonym: the Dread Pirate Roberts. The allegations presented in the Silk Road trial—which begins Tuesday, January 13th—read like they’re ripped from the pages of a tabloid rag edited ...

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 ...

Dread Pirate Roberts was online briefly until 2:47 p.m. Just minutes after Dread signed off, federal agents saw Ulbricht leave his apartment and walk down the street in the direction of Bello, ...

Dread Pirate Roberts: We represent a right for the individual to choose what they would or wouldn't like to put into their own bodies. The state is no longer a protector of the people in many ways.

An entrepreneur as professionally careful as the Dread Pirate Roberts doesn't trust instant messaging services. Forget phones or Skype. At one point during our eight-month preinterview courtship ...

Hearsay or not, the story of how the Dread Pirate Roberts acquired the Silk Road was one of the first things Roberts told me in our five-hour, wide-ranging interview on July 4, 2013 over the Silk ...

Ross Ulbricht, who called himself the Dread Pirate Roberts and created the Silk Road online drugs market, has just been sentenced to life in prison.In a letter to the judge, he pleaded for ...

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.At first, it seemed like Silk Road ...

The FBI says the man behind the online drug market Silk Road, who dreamed of a utopian marketplace, did terrible things to protect it. This story originally ran Dec. 2 on All Things Considered.