I would have to disagree with you KenJackson in your thought that taking down Silk Road was good.
The issue of taking down Silk Road is a lot more complex than people give it credit for. If you step back and look at it, Silk Road was an anonymous marketplace. That by itself is not illegal or bad. Of course, people used Silk Road to do bad and illegal things. If that is the measure you use to say it was evil and needed closing then you could say Tor is also evil and needs to go.
So the market place itself was not evil, it was the users that were doing illegal things. (and apparently the guy who started silk road also was breaking the law, but he should be tried for those crimes, not for silk road) It is important though that we don't attack service providers for providing a service. Instead we need to focus on the people committing the crimes.
Building off my point that we need to go after the people committing the crimes, what has shutting down Silk Road accomplished? Do you really think all those drug dealers and such tossed up there hands and said "oh well, marketplace is closed so I guess we have to stop". No, what they have done is moved, and they now will move deeper underground and be harder to find. At least with Silk Road you had a place to start looking.
You can even add another layer to the problem. That is the fact that Silk Road actually in some ways made things safer. The drugs being sold often were of good quality and were directly delivered. So this cut down on the dealers on street corners. People were getting their drugs in a relatively safe method instead of going into the bad part of town and getting stuff that is cut with rat poison and such.
So I would argue that shutting down Silk Road was stupid on a lot of fronts. The one thing it did do was give the cops something to brag about. They can now party and talk about how they are "doing something". Although, if you really look at it you will quickly see it had no real lasting effect.