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...Scrabble rebellion rages on! After forcing the shutdown on Facebook of a popular Scrabble knockoff called Scrabulous, Hasbro promoted its own online version. Fans of Scrabulous, which had 500,000 daily users, went wild--and not in a good way. A "Save Scrabulous" group now has more than 50,000 members. Other protest groups include "Give Us Scrabulous or Give Us Death!" and "Please God, I Have So Little: Don't Take Scrabulous...
...Agarwalla, just launched Wordscraper, a build-your-own game that, coincidentally, uses a grid the same size as Scrabble's. If a Facebook player happens to make a board that's identical to Scrabble's--a feat that takes less than two minutes--well, it's a free world. Hasbro officials did not comment on the new application...
...Hasbro officials couldn't immediately be reached for comment...
...suit, Hasbro alleged copyright infringement, pointing out that Scrabulous used the same colors as the classic Scrabble board and mimicked it in many other ways. The Agarwallas contended that many sites have knocked off Scrabble over the years and that the game is virtually in the public domain at this point...
...Tens of thousands of Scrabulous fans have joined groups and signed petitions angrily denouncing Hasbro for banning the game. Electronic Arts, which licensed Scrabble from Hasbro, launched a beta version of the classic board game last week. But most fans hated it and complained about the time-consuming animations that every move triggered. Within hours of Wordscraper's going up Wednesday night, hundreds of people began installing the game as word spread across the social network...