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Developers Take Scrabulous Offline in North America

July 29th, 2008

This morning, Vindu Goel at the NYT reported that Scrabulous, the popular Facebook game and Scrabble clone, had been shut down. Just last week, Hasbro, owner of Scrabble IP in North America, filed a DMCA claim against the makers of the game.

However, it appears that the take-down was not Facebook’s doing. Instead, it was a voluntary move by the Agarwalla Brothers (see interview here) while they sort out their legal matters in North America. Scrabulous remains accessible elsewhere in the world.

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One Response to “Developers Take Scrabulous Offline in North America”

  1. Inside Social Games » Blog Archive » Inside Social Games’ Top 25 Social Games for August 3, 2008 - Tracking the convergence of games and social networks Says:
    August 3rd, 2008 at 3:39 pm

    [...] previously the 5th biggest game on Facebook, has been taken offline by its developers, the Agarwalla Brothers, after receiving a cease and desist from Hasbro. The Agarwalla Brothers [...]

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