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Scrabulous pulled from Facebook
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Popular social networking site Facebook finally pulled down Scrabulous, its third-party version of Scrabble, after being threatened with legal action. Following Mattel, who owns the international rights to Scrabble, U.S. rights holder Hasbro slammed Facebook with a Digital Millennium Copyright notice. F-book took the game down due to the copyright concerns (which, let's be honest, it totally violated wicked hard), and Hasbro in turn is filing suit against the application's creators. So I guess we're just going to have to go back to the original time waster: alcohol.
What-what? Hasbro and Electronic Arts made a Facebook application for Scrabble? It's been out for a while now but is still in beta and crashes a ton? Maybe Hasbro should ask Scrabulous creators Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla to work out the kinks.
It should be noted that scrabulous.com appears to still be working. I always preferred it to the Facebook version anyway.
that’s because you like to play with robots.