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Quote from: QuestionAuthority on May 28, 2015, 09:03:51 AM

I got a better "what if". What if Ross decided to relocate to a more favorable country after he made his first million instead of running it from inside the jaws of the lion? Would SR still be in operation today? What if he duplicated his servers over five continents and relocated himself every six months? Would it ever be possible to catch him (not that running a major drug distribution network using the free wifi at a San Francisco public library wasn't a good idea too)? lol

That was probably his biggest mistake.
Then comes all the other mistakes he did.

However, do you think any other country would be better though?
I mean the Silk Road was an international black market,
so I can't think of any country that wouldn't take action against it.

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This is actually a very interesting question and I only wish this is what he had done. If he had set it up as some sort of free ad place or maybe took fees and donated them to charity I'm sure the judge would be much more lenient, but I still think they'd prosecute the owners if caught because you're still facilitating the sale of illegal items. It's interesting though if someone just set up a free market on the dark web and let people sell whatever they want then is that the owners fault if people list illegal items? I think it's going to be interesting to see how these decentralized markets end up working and how LE act to try take them down.

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I got a better "what if". What if Ross decided to relocate to a more favorable country after he made his first million instead of running it from inside the jaws of the lion? Would SR still be in operation today? What if he duplicated his servers over five continents and relocated himself every six months? Would it ever be possible to catch him (not that running a major drug distribution network using the free wifi at a San Francisco public library wasn't a good idea too)? lol

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No, because he was still facilitating the sale of drugs. I'm sure he would have got a lighter sentence if he operated a freemarket and at least then could have stood by his libertarian principles and not looked like a phony hypocrite. I think he was obviously motivated by greed or the power he had went to his head.

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Quote from: LFC_Bitcoin on May 28, 2015, 05:57:19 AM

Unfortunately he would have, whether he made money or not would probably be irrelevent.
He's an accessory to drugs & arms + whatever else dealing.
It's a real shame as he didn't handle any of the goods himself but the law is the law.
He should have got out quicker when he'd earned a certain amount of capital.
The law is a bastard, rapists, pedophiles & murderers can get shorter jail terms than what he'll end up with.

Greed.
It doesn't matter how much they get, they always want more.
And the more they get, the cockier they get.

Doesn't that remind you of someone?
You know, these people we see on TV all the time,
They lie, steal, raise wars, what they called?
Oh yeah, that's it: The government and Politicians!
Wink

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No, I think the only reason he was prosecuted was because he profited from the buying and selling of drugs.

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He made it in an illegal manner, whether he put in some disclaimer that whatever comes in, the users need to deal with it on their own...

Just think of those who bought from him, if he consists of the data of such people, then what will happen to the ones who bought from him...

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Unfortunately he would have, whether he made money or not would probably be irrelevent.
He's an accessory to drugs & arms + whatever else dealing.
It's a real shame as he didn't handle any of the goods himself but the law is the law.
He should have got out quicker when he'd earned a certain amount of capital.
The law is a bastard, rapists, pedophiles & murderers can get shorter jail terms than what he'll end up with.

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Quote from: louise123 on May 28, 2015, 05:31:11 AM

Would Ross Ulbright be facing jail time if he didn't charge ANY fees at all?

Let's say he operated Silk Road as a free service and probably "unmonitored" with a disclaimer that he is not liable for what goes on.

So would he be still facing jail time?

Well, that is a complicated subject there.
If he was to get jail time if he done things as you mention above then the guys developing Open Bazaar would be in a difficult position too, dont you think?

I do not think he would have gotten jail time if that was the case.

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Quote from: louise123 on May 28, 2015, 05:31:11 AM

Would Ross Ulbright be facing jail time if he didn't charge ANY fees at all?

Let's say he operated Silk Road as a free service and probably "unmonitored" with a disclaimer that he is not liable for what goes on.

So would he be still facing jail time?

Its a good point since right now they have him on profiting from illegal activity indirectly. Im thinking he would be facing jail time though the fact is everything is illegal if the people in power decide it is. A central authority cannot follow a moral code as well as decentralized distributed authority.

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I do not think that Uncle Sam would have left him go, if that was the case still.

So my guess is yes, he would.

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Would Ross Ulbright be facing jail time if he didn't charge ANY fees at all?

Let's say he operated Silk Road as a free service and probably "unmonitored" with a disclaimer that he is not liable for what goes on.

So would he be still facing jail time?

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