Deep Web

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Deep Web is a documentary directed by Alex Winter (Downlaoded, Bill from Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure).The film focuses on the titular deep web – a portion of the internet not indexed by search engines – and a court case against one of its alleged conspirators.

Extending far beyond the confines of Google and Facebook, there is a vast, unseen area of the Internet called the Deep Web. This mysterious cyberspace serves as an outlet for anonymous communication and was home to Silk Road, the online black market notorious for drug trafficking. The intricacies of this alternate Internet caught the attention of the general public with the October 2013 arrest of Ross William Ulbricht – the convicted 30-year-old entrepreneur accused of being ‘Dread Pirate Roberts,’ the online pseudonym of the Silk Road creator and operator. Deep Web chronicles the tangled web of secrecy, accusations, and criminal activity attached to the case, and explores how the outcome of Ulbricht’s trial could set a critical precedent for the future of privacy in the digital age.

Winter could have made a documentary about the deep web at large, but felt that a more focused and personal narrative would prove more effective. “At its heart, Deep Web is not so much about technology or even crime, but an attempt to strip away the prevailing exaggeration and one-dimensional reporting in order to examine the individuals caught up in these seismic changes that are shaping our future.”

Deep Web is rated 14A.