[bediger]

In about 48 hours, Silk Road will get used to justify the PROTECT-IP act that Sen Wyden of Oregon just put a hold on.

"Intellectual Property" is not yet one of the Horsemen of the Internet Apocalypse, but Drugs still is.

[nextparadigms]

Just because they seize their domain, doesn't mean those guys will stop selling drugs, or that their "business" will be affected for too long by a domain seizure. Obviously they need to catch them and arrest them.

Seizing the domain doesn't help at all, and the fact that they are using bitcoin is pretty irrelevant.

[endian]

It's not a website, it's a Tor Hidden Service.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Tor_%28anonym...