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Deep web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century the arrest of ross william ulbricht, the 30yearold entrepreneur convicted of being dread pirate roberts, creator and operator of online black market silk road. Such a thrill to be there with fellow producers marc schiller and glen zipper pictured, and the awesome jill burkhart from epix. After completing nyu film school, he went on to have starring roles in several feature films, including. Entertainment tech company singulardtv and futurism studios have greenlit alex winters documentary untitled blockchain film winter pictured, who directed sxsw 2015 documentary deep web. Filmmaker alex winter joins matt and ben to talk about his new documentary deep web, following the story of the infamous silk road and its creator, ross ulbricht. The important thing about a revolution is that its bigger than you, says downloaded director alex winter in our discussion about his new napster documentary and the.
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