SCRABULOUS, which has already been pulled from Facebook in the US and Canada has now been banned throughout the world.
Facebook was forced to remove Scrabulous after one of Scrabble’s rights owners, Mattel made a formal removal request and the developers of Scrabulous took no action to fight back.
The only place you can play Scrabulous is in India, where its developers live and where Mattel has filed an IP lawsuit.
Even the little guys get their say!
According to AP, Facebook isn’t blocking Scrabulous there for now because it is a matter for the Indian courts.
Facebook had hoped Mattel would go away after Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the brothers in Calcutta who created Scrabulous, agreed to withdraw the program in the US and Canada.
The popularity of Scrabulous – which saw over 600,000 people a day logging in to play – was actually the undoing of the game as it prompted Mattel to create its own online version of Scrabble (with Electronic Arts) and start legal action against Scrabulous for copyright infringement.
If you’re that much of a fan, I guess you will be boarding the next flight out, we are kidding.
There are quite a few other free places to play Scrabble online. People are becoming too reliant on social networking sites, they seem to be forgetting that the internet is a pretty big place and you don’t have to stay confined to a single site to enjoy everything.
The internet is a huge place, but socials are ruling the streets.
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