The site operated much like eBay. It allowed users to buy and sell illegal drugs, guns, and even hire hitmen.

The Silk Road was set up to be completely anonymous, hidden from law enforcement efforts.

Bruce had become the biggest illegal drug market on the internet.

The FBI spent two years trying to find the man behind the site.

Dread Pirate Roberts.

Dread pirate Roberts.

Dread pirate Roberts.

Dread pirate Roberts could face life in prison.

Well, he created this online marketplace.

It involves a little known part of the internet, known as the dark dark web and a website called the Silk Road.

Anything you send to this through this internet is completely encrypted and nobody knows that it's you who sent it.

That was kind of his fatal flaw. It was pretty ridiculous that you would put your real name out there

if you're going to create this, become a criminal mastermind, but that's what he did.

Uelberg is facing a number of drug and conspiracy charges and has pleaded not guilty.

Well, Russ Ulbricht, as we told you several moments ago, was told by a judge that he would have to forfeit $184 million.

I think it was unfair, I think it was not a level playing field.

It's difficult to say exactly what the precedent is, but I think what it does show is that the

government has the ability to infiltrate and prosecute hackers.

The biggest criminal trial in the history of the internet is over this morning,

and so apparently is Ross Ulbricht's freedom.

This sentence is anything more than just purely punitive and completely beyond the

range of what drug offenders get in this district, in this circuit, in this country.

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