Scrabulous has been shut down on Facebook.If you try to pull up the popular Scrabble-like game, you get the following message: “Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here.” If you click, you get a form from the Scrabulous founders asking for your e-mail address so they can keep you posted on further developments. It is a bit of a surprise that Scrabulous, an obvious copy of the board game Scrabble, managed to avoid shutdown as long as it did. I loved to play Scrabulous as much as the next person, but Hasbro, owner of the rights to Scrabble in the United States, was not amused. After Hasbro started its own Scrabble application on Facebook, it sued Scrabulous and its India-based creators, Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, to shut it down. In the suit, Hasbro also asked Facebook to remove the game for violating copyright law under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/facebook-shuts-down-scrabulous/index.html?ref=technology
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