You do realize Ross was a part of these forums don't you?
And the sole reason why he got caught was because they traced him using his forum account to an email he idiotically used for his personal use.

This was a screen to a part where an fbi agent was logged in to read his messages back to other forum members, which was inevitable to his demise.
It has got to be the most noobish move for him to make in order to get caught since he was meticulous with how he conducted his business so to not be detected for years on end.
There was a whole entire program dedicated to this case and showed exactly how they caught up to him featured On FBI Declassified.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ross-ulbricht-dread-pirate-roberts-silk-road-fbi

I suggest you watch it before stating that this doesn't belong here in the bitcoin discussions thread. Because it's whole reason for ending up the way it did and even in part to it's creation was due to the forums and it's involvement to bitcoin!
Straight facts, whether you like it or not.
It is reality and not just a movie like this production was based on..
real life events.