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, ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts wrote that he was trying to create a community - a truly free market. But building an online anonymous libertarian marketplace is a challenge. I mean, think about it.

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 ...

The Dread Pirate Roberts (often abbreviated DPR) alias was created not by Ulbricht but by a still-unidentified Silk Road marijuana seed dealer who utilized the names Variety Jones and Cimon, and ...

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.

“[Dread Pirate] Roberts isn’t actually the site’s founder, he revealed in our interview. He credits Silk Road’s creation to another, even more secretive entrepreneur whom he declined to ...

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 ...

Similarly anonymous, Ulbricht allegedly ran Silk Road under the online alias Dread Pirate Roberts, an online alias taken from The Princess Bride novel and movie.

Ross William Ulbricht, the 29-year-old web wiz charged with running a $1.2 billion Internet drug bazaar, was denied bail Thursday after prosecutors said he paid $730,000 trying to get six people mu… ...