Hasbro forces Scrabulous to cut online Scrabble service

Game players who love to play scrabble online might not be able to soon, as Scrabble owners Hasbro have told Scrabulous that they have to cut their service. This follows the lawsuit by game maker Hasbro Inc.

Many Scrabulous players will know that it is the online version of the popular board game; it was created by two brothers in India. Hasbro had filed the lawsuit against the brothers last Thursday.

According to Reuters, Scrabulous has now been disabled for users in the U.S. and Canada until further notice. Scrabulous told their online users this on Facebook.

The online version of Scrabble was introduced on Facebook and has been a bit of a phenomenon. Scrabulous has become one of the most popular games on Facebook; it attracts more than 500,000 daily players.

It was great idea, pitting online users to the game of scrabble, looks like they should have gotten permission first from Hasbro.

If Scrabulous goes from Facebook, will you miss it?

Most people that use Facebook are doing so to keep in contact with friends and family from all around the world. But some also go to the social networking site to play games regularly.

Scrabulous is a game that is used by millions of Facebook users and this Scrabble knockoff has attracted the attention of Hasbro who own the Scrabble game.

If Scrabulous is removed from Facebook, how would that affect your time on the social network?

It’s a shame Hasbro could not find a middle ground with Scrabulous. The Facebook game has around 513,000 people playing it everyday. Maybe Facebook should share some of the revenue with Hasbro for the advertisements viewed while people play the game.

Hasbro have filed an intellectual property lawsuit against the Scrabulous creators. Facebook have forwarded a takedown notice to Scrabulous and expect the appropriate response from them.

It now looks like Scrabulous will be taken down and no petition groups will stop that.

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