Scrabulous removed from Facebook again
Scrabulous, the controversial third-party Facebook app, has once again been removed from the social networking site.
Use of the app, which is based on the board game Scrabble, had been suspended earlier this month in the U.S. and Canada after Hasbro, the makers of the game, sued the developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla citing copyright and trademark infringement.
Now Mattel, which holds the right to the board game in other areas of the world, has also started legal proceedings against the pair, forcing Facebook to ban the app in every country apart from India.
Hasbro and Mattel launched their own official Scrabble app on Facebook but it has only 70,000 active users, just 10 percent of the number of Scrabulous users at its peak.
The Agarwalla brothers renamed their app Wordscrapper and tweaked it so users could design their own boards, in a bid to avoid legal proceedings.
Jayant Agarwalla said: "It surprises us that Mattel chose to direct Facebook to take down Scrabulous without waiting for the decision [of the Indian courts]. Mattel's action speaks volumes about their business practices and respect for the judiciary."
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And to think the games I was
And to think the games I was playing will never finish...What a pity.
One of my most enjoyable past times..
Scrabulous is the least
Scrabulous is the least controversial thing going on at Facebook.On regular interval Facebook hunts down it's own members and mass deletes whole pages and members because their idea of freedom of speech and expression is in complete opposition to the almost draconian restrictions Facebook has on members (yet Facebook Admins allegedly harbor a group known as Introllerance who frequently attack rape victims and other victims of violence while coordinating with Facebook's Admins to target and delete the accounts of those who speak out against Introllerance and their trolls).
You could do far better than reporting on a meaningless bit of fluff like Scarbulous, like on the rest of the skeletons rattling about Facebook' closet (that you will never hear if Facebook the Movie ever becomes a sick reality).
To be clear on this, when I
To be clear on this, when I say attack I do mean in a non physical sense (through words), but words can be as harmful as a fist or weapon if wielding by thugs and punks who have no respect for their fellow human beings.Anyway it's Scrabulous, big deal. Compared to the real hijinxs going on at Facebook worrying over a game of Scrabulous is a waste in my opinion (anyway didn't they put Scrabble out on the GBA, DS & PSP if you must have your daily Scrabble fix?)