Ross Ulbricht of Silk Road Sentenced to Life: 'Deep Web' Documentary to tell it all on Sunday at 8 P. M. on EPIX
"Deep Web," the 90-minute EPIX documentary that chronicles the October 2013 arrest of Ross Ulbricht, makes its World Television Premiere on EPIXHD.com, Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time. Ulbricht was convicted in February of 2015 of seven felony charges including drug trafficking, conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and a kingpin charge. He was accused of being "Dread Pirate Roberts," the creator and operator of the online black marketplace, Silk Road. He was sentenced to life in prison yesterday (Friday) in Federal District Court in....
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On February 4, 2015, a young man named Ross Ulbricht was convicted of seven charges laid in a U. S. Federal Court in Manhattan. On May 29, 2015, he was sentenced to life in prison for his crimes. He was accused of being the owner and operator of the Silk Road website, the most popular online drug marketplace. The indictment charged Ulbricht in seven counts, including narcotics trafficking, narcotics trafficking by means of the Internet, conspiring to commit narcotics trafficking, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiring to commit or aid and abet computer hacking, conspiring....
This Friday Ross Ulbricht, the creator of the underground black market Silk Road, was sentenced to life in prison after making a plea for leniency. Silk Road was an unregulated online marketplace where buyers could buy drugs by paying with Bitcoin. Ross was convicted last February on seven charges going from drug trafficking to money laundering and he could have been sentenced to only 20 years, but U. S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest stated she was making an example out of Ross Ulbricht. Ross Ulbricht has been jailed since the moment of his arrest back in October 2013 and never....
There's been quite a few films related to bitcoin, and here's another. Freshly announced: EPIX has announced that the original documentary Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and Silk Road is expected to make a world premiere on the premium network in 2015. The film, as the name would suggest, tells the story of websites hidden on the so-called Deep Web. These pages are non-indexed intentionally, and account for 96 percent of the world wide web, as it were. In particular, the film focuses on Silk Road, an illicit marketplace where users can purchase illegal products: narcotics, firearms,....
Premium entertainment channel EPIX recently released a new teaser of Deep Web - an upcoming feature documentary based on the demised underground drug marketplace Silk Road. In its roughly 1 minuted 28 seconds runtime, the teaser gives viewers plenty of insightful details to crave for, including the never-seen-before footage of Silk Road's alleged creator - and now convicted - Ross Ulbricht. In first few moments of the trailer, many questions are thrown at our faces related to Ross's unlawful identity of Dead Pirate Roberts - Silk Road's caretaker and creator. "Plenty of evidence suggests....
Nearly eight months after being sentenced to life in prison for his role in the operation of the now-defunct online black market Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht is seeking a new trial. In a new filing submitted to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Ulbricht's defense – which declared its intent to appeal in June – argued that the court hid key evidence, particularly the actions of federal agents Carl Mark Force IV and Shaun Bridges amid the US government's investigation of the Silk Road. The defense also questioned the legality of some of the searches and seizures conducted during....