Friday Morning Spice

Legal action threatened after Expropriation Bill signed into law, Purdue Pharma and Sackler family to pay $7.4 billion in settlement of OxyContin lawsuits, New Zealand’s unique water jumping obsession, Concern about City’s plan for Woodstock Hospital, and Who is Ross Ulbricht, founder of drug marketplace Silk Road?
Wednesday Morning Spice

Dark web marketplace seized. Russian mercenaries at work. Prince Andrew and Queen photographer drama. Tiger paired with Louis. Controversial avo opinion.
Wild Silk Road Story Finally Gets Its Hollywood Moment [Trailer]

Ross Ulbricht can tell the sort of story that, if you were to hear it around the braai, you would say was utter nonsense. It was only a matter of time until the story of Silk Road was given the Hollywood treatment.
What Happened To Empire Market, The World’s Most Popular Darknet Drug Bazaar?

The world’s most popular online drug market, Empire Market, has mysteriously disappeared and enquiring minds want to know why.
Fascinating Vanity Fair Piece About The Dark Net

The existence of the Dark Net came to prominence during the infamous Silk Road trials, but that’s only scratching the surface of what lurks beneath.
Chilling Emails Show Silk Road Kingpin Hiring Hitmen From Hell’s Angel

As if the head honcho at Silk Road wasn’t in enough of a mess already some new developments are putting an even bigger dampener on his vibe.
When Mum Finds Out Her Little Boy Is A Silk Road Drug Kingpin

That moment when your mother finds out you ran a website trading in illicit substances worth more than $100 million. Not cool.
You Need To Read The Silk Road Founder’s Haunting Journal

We all remember Silk Road, don’t we? That multi-million dollar website that illegally sold drugs using bitcoins? Yes, that one. So, the owner of said site, Ross Ulbricht, was caught and imprisoned. But what was on his laptop at the time he was caught?
Thursday Morning Spice

Zuma doesn’t know who #1 is. Silk Road is back online. Twitter sets IPO price. New body part discovered. It’s all over for Blockbuster. Jennifer Lawrence has a ‘pixie’ haircut. Some news about Courtney Stodden’s marriage..
Will This Be The World’s Greatest Crime Bust? They’re Arresting Silk Road Users Now

The seizure of the hidden Silk Road website and arrest of the founder and head administrator, Ross Ulbricht may have precipitated the arrest of users of the site in Sweden, Britain, and the USA.
The FBI Are Trying To Get Silk Road Owner’s $80 Million Worth Of Bitcoins

So the alleged founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, appeared in court today. If you still don’t know what Silk Road is, here’s everything you need to know. When the FBI shut his site down, they also seized all of its assets – a whole lot of Bitcoins – Bitcoins, which used to belong to the site’s users.
Everything You Want To Know About Silk Road – The Online Illegal Marketplace [PICS + VIDEO]

Silk Road, AKA the “eBay of drugs,” was a hidden internet site on the Tor network where you could buy drugs and hire hitmen, anonymously, with a simple double-click. The site was operating smoothly for years, turning its owner into a millionaire (and a killer) until he slipped up.
Thursday Morning Spice

FBI arrest Silk Road owner. Marc Jacobs is leaving Louis Vuitton. Nobel peace prize for Putin? Michael Jackson promoter verdict. Google accused of wiretapping. 16-year-old takes Billboard #1 spot. World of Warcraft movie coming. Sorry Woody Allen, your kid’s dad is actually…
Meet The Man Behind Silk Road: Fascinating Interview With The World’s Best Online Drug Dealer [VIDEO]

Dread Pirate Roberts, creator and owner of the Silk Road online drug-buying portal has completed an anonymous interview with Forbes about his growing enterprise. The Silk Road is a website where one can acquire heroin, methamphetamine, crack, cocaine, LSD, ecstasy and an insane number of marijuana varieties. Payment is possible via BitCoin.
Silk Road – The Web’s Online Drug Marketplace Of Choice

Of course you can buy drugs online. The Silk Road website is an underground Ebay-esque marketplace that has become the premier destination for buying and selling drugs online – and authorities are powerless to shut it down. The website was founded in February 2011, and recent research has shown that over a six month period […]
How To Buy Any Drug Imaginable
Tired of having to mission to a parking lot to score some hash? Constantly fearing the wrath of the pigs? Scared of your Nigerian coke dealer? Now, according to Gawker, there’s a safe and easy way for you, the tech-savvy drug-aficionado, to source your drug of choice: online.