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The story of Silk Road and Ross Ulbricht will make for a great movie.

• eric_h 12y ago
  I see a story about a protagonist who was not only supremely arrogant, he was supremely incompetent at opsec (pretty boring and tough to make a sympathetic protagonist out of that). A movie framing the cops as the protagonists would be just as boring, as it would include a scene with someone googling something and finding the crumb they need to nail Ulbricht, followed by a scene of the arrest where they don't even need to crack the encryption on his laptop to get every single thing they needed to convict him. A video of his arrest at the public library might have made an entertaining/viral youtube video, though.
  • kevinnk 12y ago
    "I see a story about a protagonist who was not only supremely arrogant, he was supremely incompetent at opsec" Ever seen Catch Me If You Can? Also, I agree a true to life story would be pretty boring. Thankfully, truth isn't exactly a requirement in hollywood storytelling.
    • eric_h 12y ago
      Haha, fair enough. A creative retelling of this story could be pretty entertaining. If you sweep all of Ulbrichts terrible opsec under the rug (and retell it as excellent opsec), you could make a pretty compelling man vs The Man story. Consider my criticism withdrawn - fiction, "based on a true story" does usually manage to be pretty entertaining. [Edit: I do still think that a youtube video of him getting arrested would really have taken off.]