>creating an anonymous e-commerce website called Silk Road. An entrepreneur passionate about free markets and privacy,
That wording really goes out of it's way to sound like this might conceivably be legal, or at least not knowingly criminal.
That wording really goes out of it's way to sound like this might conceivably be legal, or at least not knowingly criminal.
How about Uber? In most cities they were by allowing airport pickups?
How about Amazon? Remember when they aided and abetted customers with sales tax evasion for years?
During discovery they found emails from Parker saying, "Of course it's illegal. We know it, they know it, we're going to be the biggest thing in the world anyways".
But I would not conflate sharing a music file with hiring a hit-man.