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In October 2013, the FBI arrested Ross “Dread Pirate Roberts” Ulbricht for his role in leading a major online criminal enterprise. This May, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
New bills could mark either the end of the Internet as we know it, or the reigning in of the relatively lawless World Wide Web.
The ground is beginning to shake beneath the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) Internet censorship bill, introduced by House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith last month.
