The advent of the internet has changed the way drugs are bought, sold, and exchanged. In fact, this new environment of cyberspace has changed the very way that people interact with one another. In the past, a drug dealer might give a fake name to maintain anonymity, but in the era of the internet, an entirely fabricated persona becomes a possibility. Such is the case with the Dread Pirate Roberts, the fabricated identity that masked the man who created the infamous online black market website the Silk Road. The Silk Road The Silk Road was a black market site that was designed to allow users to buy, sell, or trade almost anything they wanted. The site was encoded and accessible only through a special TOR internet browser, thus ensuring commerce was possible without the fear of government interference. Not only did this allow for money to change hands without having to pay the duly assigned sales tax associated with the exchange, it also provided the opportunity to buy and sell drugs online. While there were some slight boundaries — stolen goods, child pornography, and fake degrees were all outlawed — there was an extremely lively drug trade. The Dread Pirate Roberts Presiding over this illicit amazon was the Dread Pirate Roberts, a name taken from The Princess Bride (likely the movie, not the book, given that if the man behind DPR had been a reader, he presumably would have chosen…