life in prison for creating a websiteOr maybe, you know, for the murders he is accused of ordering?
Before the sentencing, the parent of one man, who died from using heroin that prosecutors said was purchased on Silk Road, accused Mr. Ulbricht of being driven by greed in making drugs easily available to vulnerable people.
"No drug dealer from Harlem or the Bronx would have made these arguments," said Forrest. "It's an argument of privilege."
They are both scammers who set up websites
Anyone who might consider doing something similar, the judge added, needed to understand clearly “and without equivocation that if you break the law this way, there will be very serious consequences.”
She dismissed the defense’s argument that because Silk Road had operated online, it was safer than traditional street-level drug dealing. She described how Silk Road had expanded the market for drugs and the demand by users, and cited collateral damage, from the violence associated with drug production overseas to addiction, crime and the destruction of families. Silk Road, she said, was just “a step in the chain.”
Before his arrest in New Zealand, he was the world's number one-ranked Modern Warfare 3 player out of more than 15 million online players.[27] On 23 January 2012 he lost the position and dropped to number two.[28]What a fucking badass.