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...Agarwalla brothers - the maverick team that brought a wildly popular Scrabble knockoff to Facebook last year, just scored another bingo against Hasbro. A day after Hasbro filed a lawsuit to force the duo based in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), India, to take down Scrabulous, the software developers quietly launched a new, roll-your-own version on Facebook. The move appears to cleverly sidestep legal issues while giving the 500,000 fans of Scrabulous a way to thumb their noses at the Man - and play the version of Scrabble they want...
...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...
...Scrabulous, are still considering their options, I'm told. They have attorneys in both the U.S. and India, where they are fighting a similar action against Mattel, which owns the licensing rights to Scrabble outside North America. "Facebook has informed us that they have received a legal notice from Hasbro in reference to the Scrabulous application. In deference to Facebook's concerns and without prejudice to our legal rights, we have had to restrict our fans in USA and Canada from accessing the Scrabulous application on Facebook until further notice," their statement reads...