Abramoff and his consultant sidekick, Michael Scanlon, had worked hard to make that statewide casino shutdown happen.

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The shutdown did have commercial impact on many others, though it is hard to quantify.

FORBES: Silence Of The Blogs

Between SOPA, ACTA, The Megaupload shutdown and the massive Anonymous retaliatory attacks, two entrenched sides seem to be settling into a long, hard war.

FORBES: A Defiant Pirate Bay calls 2012 "The Year of The Storm"