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Originally Posted by Choopa Phil
Child porn is on the tor network, not on silkroad...
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While, Silk Road was primarily involved with the illegal drug trade market, the site did have an active Erotica section, and there is speculation that CP was hosted on the same servers as Silk Road:
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The second interesting speculation surrounds the FBI?s claim that they acquired the details of the site from a friendly foreign legal jurisdiction where the servers actually were.
Informed comment around the place has this being taken as meaning the Freedom Hosting servers in Ireland. These were taken over back in August by law enforcement and run for some unknown period of time by them in order to gather more proof (and, it is said, to try to seed users? browsers with malware in order to be able to track them further).
The reason for the Freedom Hosting takeover was that it was home to some of the larger child porn sites on the net. That the Silk Road server is, or is being assumed to have been there, seems just a coincidence, but one which will of course have made the law enforcement agencies very happy indeed.
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Source: Forbes
Remove the CP charges, and what do you have? Just illegal drug dealing, money-laundering, and other illegal activities such as the occasional murder-for-hire.
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