The trial of Ross Ulbricht hinges on proving that Ulbricht is the Dread Pirate Roberts, a shadowy, pseudonymous kingpin who ran the massive online narcotics market known as the Silk Road.

The FBI says that Ulbricht, using the screenname Dread Pirate Roberts, paid $500,000 to have the man killed in Canada, but no records of such a murder have been found so far. This indictment ...

This is an interesting little legal attempt by Ross Ulbricht, the man accused of being the Dread Pirate Roberts behind the Silk Road drugs and illegal things marketplace. He's claiming that while ...

It didn’t take long to return. Just as the previous Silk Road operator had done, the new owner called himself “Dread Pirate Roberts” (DPR). The name came from a character in The Princess ...

The government claims he is the Dread Pirate Roberts, the infamous kingpin of Silk Road, an online black market for drugs and other illicit goods. Ulbricht’s trial began today, after many delays ...

He is, in fact, not dead, but has been hired by said pirate to be his personal cabin boy. “Good job today, Westley,” the Dread Pirate Roberts tells the boy each evening. “I’ll most likely ...

Silk Road mastermind “Dread Pirate Roberts,” it seems, was no exception. But here’s the facepalm-worthy part: According to the criminal complaint, Ulbricht posted the question using his own ...

More than 14 months after his arrest, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts, the masked figure who ran the Silk Road's unprecedented online supermarket for drugs.

Today on the show, the story of the Dread Pirate Roberts of the internet age. A man who dreamed of setting up a utopian marketplace, a place where you could buy and sell almost anything in secret.