Silk Road first launched in 2011 as an underground website where users could browse anonymously for drugs. They paid in a hard-to-track cyber currency called Bitcoin.

It called itself "Silk Road 2.0" and kept the appearance of the old site, down to the green nomad-and-camel logo. Its creator named himself Dread Pirate Roberts, after the first site's admin.

“Dread Pirate Roberts,” the mastermind behind the notorious black-market website Silk Road, was sentenced to the maximum of life in prison Friday as a federal judge bashed him as “no better a… ...

Last week, federal prosecutors announced that Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged proprietor of the black market online vice emporium Silk Road, was now suspected of attempting to commission six ...

FBI agent Christopher Tarbell says, "Silk Road has emerged as the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the Internet today," adding that the site was used by "several thousand ...

"Silk Road was the most notorious online criminal marketplace of its day," said U.S. Attorney David Anderson in a news release out of his San Francisco office.

Silk Road But one thing is the same: You can still select from a large selection of illegal merchandise, from fake passports to pill-pressing machines to, yes, just about any drug you could want.