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Silk Road online drug market seized by the FBI

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Silk Road online drug market seized by the FBI

The underground web site, The Silk Road, was known as the Amazon of illegal drugs. Yesterday, the FBI arrested the alleged founder of the Silk Road, a 29-year-old named Ross William Ulbricht.

RELATED: Meeting Dread Pirate Roberts, the head of the Silk Road illicit drug website

For more on this, we're joined once again by Nate Anderson deputy editor for Ars Technica. 

Criminal Complaint against Ross William Ulbricht, known as Dread Pirate Roberts