Quote from: inBitweTrust on March 24, 2015, 04:48:26 PM

Quote from: Rampton on March 24, 2015, 04:40:36 PM

You can't arrest or put people in jail when no crime has been committed or even before one has. They don't have some sort of Minority Report Pre-Crime Internet Unit. They'll just have to learn to deal with it when it comes and go after the individual dealers which is what will happen.

It will be interesting to see how tracking down individual drug dealers will be effective with a decentralized marketplace with strong privacy protections built in. It took the combined efforts of multiple departments and millions to catch Ross Ulbrict. They may find that they have a limited budget and need to focus on investigating murders for hire and child porn instead of victimless crimes like drug dealing.

The markets themselves wern't the weak links. I think most of the people that get caught were caught from making silly errors like Ross was. It's not that hard to track the sellers down when you have to go and post the items. You can find fingerprints on packages and narrow down where they're sent from. Then you just stake out the places and wait. Eventually you'll get a catch.