Let's be honest here. Whatever the legal circumstances of the seizing of the servers, whatever else may have gone down, this is a bad dude who should go to jail. While i personally believe that drugs should be legalized, I do NOT believe that hitmen should be as well...and in my opinion that's where this dude crossed the line from "A dude who will get supported" to "A dude who will get supported by only the staunchest of privacy advocates...who will support him for all the wrong reasons"

A way to buy pot online? Totally fucking illegal...but would I push for conviction? Absofuckinglutely not. Would I even push for conviction for a way to buy heroin online? Probably not. Do I think someone selling weapons and other "services" online should be convicted? You bet your fucking ass I do. As a reformed pothead who spent many many MANY days sitting on his couch smoking up and eating pizza (and ice cream, and sheet cakes, and bologna), I can assure you that pot did not lead to any violent crimes, at least in my case. Do I think many potheads are criminals? Other than the actual buying/smoking pot itself, absolutely not. Do I think this guy is a criminal? You bet I do...because he crossed that line from "dude who makes it so people can do drugs in their own homes" to "dude who makes hiring gunmen accessible to the common man".

I don't really see how this guy has ANY hope of getting off, other than on legal technicality.