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Scrabulous has to be the most popular application on Facebook. But Hasbro, the makers of the board game Scrabble, are ticked off: Scrabulous is too similar to their product and they didn't authorize it and they aren't making any money from it (two brothers from India created it in 2006 as a web site and later marketed it to Facebook). There's a possibility that Hasbro might seek to shut Scrabulous down.
Ouch!
NPR reported on the controversy this morning.
CNET reported on it last week.
What do you think, Scrabulous fanatics? What will you do if Scrabulous shuts down? Should Hasbro and Scrabulous make a deal? Where will you get your Scrabble fix?
Update: Hasbro and Mattel (Mattel holds the rights to Scrabble outside of the U.S. and Canada) have asked Facebook to remove Scrabulous, Reuters reports.
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Posted by unregistered user at 1/15/08 11:50 a.m.
That's clearly a blatant rip-off. Hasbro has a case. They should cut a deal.