Drudge Retort: Red Meat for Yellow Dogs
Friday, July 25, 2008

Hasbro, the maker of the board game Scrabble, has sued the makers of Scrabulous, an online knockoff that has thousands of users on Facebook and other sites.

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They have nothing better to do? It advertises Hasbro's product. The popularity from Facebook will drive additional board game sales. Another example of on under worked, over zealous legal department. This country has too many idle lawyers. A recipe for disaster.

I once drew the letters for the word "xenon" right off the bat during a Scrabble game.

Scrabulicious news! Of course, we live in such a scrabiligious society, this was bound to scrabben.

"They have nothing better to do? It advertises Hasbro's product. The popularity from Facebook will drive additional board game sales. Another example of on under worked, over zealous legal department. This country has too many idle lawyers. A recipe for disaster."

Huh? They ripped off the game 100% it sounds like. Why would anyone buy the board game if they can play online? Hasbro probably wants to license its own version of online Scrabble but nobody is going to buy the rights if you just let people publish knockoffs.

scrabulous is not making any revenue from players, so it shouldn't have to pay licensing fees. without such stringent licensing/ip regulations hasbro would have been forced into the market and to make a better online game.

"scrabulous is not making any revenue from players, so it shouldn't have to pay licensing fees. without such stringent licensing/ip regulations hasbro would have been forced into the market and to make a better online game."

They aren't making any money but they are making Hasbro's rights to the online game worthless anyway.

Why should Hasbro have to come up with a "better game" than Scrabble when they own Scrabble? The people who don't own Scrabble need to come up with their own game.

As much as I love to bash on corporate America, I can't condone outright theft.

puh-leeze. the obvious guy says... this was bound to happen.

instead of candy land, i am going to invent sugar land.

they deserve to be sued.

Sugar Land TX, 77479

As one who has patents and invented items, I take issue with the mindset that it is no big deal. It is Hasbro's property, it doesn't matter if they make a dime off of it, which they most likely do. It is about owner/inventorship, pure and simple. I hope no one ever rips off your ideas and you have to sue to get them to stop, because it is not cheap. But it show how much you idiots lack morals and character. This is a black and white issue. It is wrong to steal period. Those who can't see that need to get counseling because you have a mental illness.

I once drew the letters for the word "xenon" right off the bat during a Scrabble game.

Too bad it wasn't later in the game when you could have triple worded it.

Once in my first draw, I got the word 'a'.

'Scrabulous' reads like one of those unpronouneable diseases.

If our people are housed, what are Eskimos? Exactly! I still say "iglooed" is a word and I should get my 50-point bonus. herm

..F
.HASBRO
..C
SUES
..B......S
..O.....C
..OVER
..K.....A
..........B
..........B
..........L
..........E

Scrabulous would describe my early 20's.




'aight!

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