Hasbro Sues Makers of Scrabble-Like Scrabulous [Slashdot]

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Dekortage writes "As today's lawsuit indicates, Hasbro has apparently had enough of Scrabulous, the online word game remarkably similar to Scrabble. Filed in New York, Hasbro's suit is against Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, brothers from Kolkata, India, and asks the court to remove the Scrabulous application from Facebook, disable the Scrabulous.com web site, and grant damages and attorneys fees to Hasbro. Why did Hasbro tale so long to 'protect' its intellectual property rights in court? They waited 'in deference to the fans' until EA had launched the official Scrabble Facebook app earlier this month. EA's version has netted fewer than ten thousand players, versus Scrabulous' estimated 2.3 million. This was the next logical step for Hasbro after filing DMCA takedown notices against Scrabulous in January."http://games.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/07/24/2128238 (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/24/2128238&from=rss)
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[skaar]

BOOOOO.

They did it better than you, so spit in their eye.

*goes back to play his Scrabulous moves*

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

Jeez ... you don't see Milton Bradley out there suing all the Battleship and Connect Four clone software developers!

[Nebagram]

To be fair I prefer the official scrabble application on facebook, but I do think Hasbro and Mattel were just retarded not approaching scrabulous and working out a deal. 2.3 million users can't be wrong...

[exit]

I guess next they'll go after Literati, the other Scrabble like clone.

[Nebagram]

I guess next they'll go after Literati, the other Scrabble like clone.

Interestingly though www.isc.ro has been running for over seven years... largely due to it being hosted in Romania, a country where Mattel/Hasbro apparently have no copyright on the Scrabble name. I guess Scrabulous just got sloppy. ;)