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Episode 291 - The Silk Road: Drugs, Data & The Dread Pirate Roberts

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Ross Ulbrich's Trial: A Multifaceted Defence

Ross Ulbrich was arrested after Silk Road's servers went down. He spent the next year in prison awaiting trial, several weeks of which were in solitary confinement. The 27-year-old middle-class boy from Texas was charged with conspiracy to traffic narcotics,. criminal enterprise, computer hacking, and money laundering. His legal team tried to have the case dismissed altogether because of the shit the FBI pulled on finding that server in Iceland.

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