Scrabulous No Longer Available For US,Canadian Customers; Other Countries OK
This story was written by James Quintana Pearce.
Hasbro's lawsuit has shut down the popular Facebook Scrabble application Scrabulous, at least for US and Canada users. "If you try to pull up the popular 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,'" reports NYT. Here in Mexico Scrabulous is working, and my Australian friends are still listed in the games. Which brings us to the crux of the issue, which is an old, complicated rights ownership crashing into a global online media. Hasbro, which started the lawsuit, only owns the rights to Scrabble in the US and CanadaMattel owns the rights to the rest of the world.
By James Quintana Pearce