Silk Road
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A new anonymous internet marketplace for illegal drugs has opened, with the same name and appearance as the Silk Road website shut down by US law enforcement authorities a month ago.
Like its predecessor, the new Silk Road listed hundreds of advertisements for controlled substances available to buy using the anonymous Bitcoin digital currency.
On October 1, the Federal Bureau of Investigation shut down the original Silk Road and arrested its alleged mastermind, Ross William Ulbricht, 29, known online as "Dread Pirate Roberts", in San Francisco.
"It took the FBI two-and-a-half years to do what they did...but four weeks of temporary silence is all they got," a site administrator wrote, also using the "Dread Pirate Roberts" pseudonym, when the site opened on Wednesday.
- hence the legend of Dread Pirate Roberts lives on... hehZOOP