Dutch take down Utopia (Replacement site for Silk Road )

The Dutch Public Prosecution Service said Tuesday that the Dutch National Police seized the hidden market place Utopia. All that was revealed was that the website was in the business of selling illegal items.

Utopia was a hidden website, only accessible through the Tor anonymity network. According to DeepDotWeb, it was meant as a replacement for the Silk Road website. After the seizure on Tuesday, a moderator of the Silk Road forums posted a message encouraging users to: “regroup, and do it again.”

"Show them that you, we, are a hydra—cut off one head and ten more spring up,” he wrote.

This is not the first time the Dutch have seized a website. In 2011, it seized several hidden services used to exchange child porn images. Those seizures were done by obtaining administrator rights.