(RT) An almost exact copy of the notorious internet marketplace for illicit drugs called Silk Road was launched on Wednesday. The platform comes online a month after the FBI shut down the original one and arrested its alleged founder.
The new Silk Road’s welcome page mocks law enforcers’ efforts to put an end to online illegal drug sales. It’s designed in imitation of the FBI sign placed upon the outlawed old version of the website, only instead of “The hidden site has been seized,” it reads “The hidden site has risen.”
Just like the original Silk Road, its new version can be accessed via the anonymous browser Tor. Purchases can be made by the digital currency bitcoin, believed to be untraceable.
Already at its launch the new version of the site offered its users a choice from 500 various drug listings. "'It took the FBI two-and-a-half years to do what they did ... but four weeks of temporary silence is all they got,” reads a note from the site administrator, who as in the case with the shuttered site, goes under the nickname of 'Dread Pirate Roberts'.
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7,000 people have registered so far and no sign of slowing down. 7,000 more voices who add to the call of freedom.
— Dread Pirate Roberts (@DreadPirateSR) November 7, 2013
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that didn't take long.
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