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Hasbro Using DMCA on Facebook Game Apps

Posted by Zonk on from the bit-of-overkill-dont-you-think dept.

Boggle Addict writes "Rather than participating in the online gaming market, Hasbro is suppressing it with litigation. Scrabulous, a Scrabble imitation, is already fighting to prevent being shut down. Today, Hasbro sent out DMCA notices to other apps on Facebook, including Bogglific, a Boggle imitation. Copyright law has has always held very limited protections for games. This may be opening a can of worms for Hasbro.

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  1. Sounds like... by croddy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds like Hasbro wants to have a Monopoly on word games.

    1. Re:Sounds like... by mcmonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just wait until the Tic-Tac-Toe folks find out about Hollywood Squares.

    2. Re:Sounds like... by CSMatt · · Score: 5, Funny

      Nope. That's Parker Brothers.

    3. Re:Sounds like... by Kuukai · · Score: 5, Funny

      Sounds like Hasbro wants to have a Monopoly on word games. Yeah. If they aren't careful they might find their feet caught in a Mousetrap, with a proverbial Twister of counterlitigation headed in their direction. Boy, then they'll be Sorry. Their Battleship is pretty much sunk, man. They just don't have a Clue...
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    4. Re:Sounds like... by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ooh, ooh! L-Lemme try.

      Yeah, the CEO might lose his Yahtzee!

      D-Did I do it right?

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    5. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Good thing they have people on staff to act as Checkers, otherwise their string of hits might fall down like a bunch of Dominoes, or a house of Cards.

      What? You mean none of those are trademarked? Crap!

    6. Re:Sounds like... by Kuukai · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, instead of "the CEO," I would have said "their numero Uno"...

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    7. Re:Sounds like... by Kuukai · · Score: 3, Funny

      What? You mean none of those are trademarked? Crap! Checkmate.
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    8. Re:Sounds like... by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Unfortunately for them, Parker Brothers have a Monopoly monopoly...

    9. Re:Sounds like... by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just had to get that off your chess, didn't you?

    10. Re:Sounds like... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      It does indeed Boggle the mind how much Trouble this Operation could cause them. This case will be no Trivial Pursuit -- the Risk could result in putting them in Jeopardy for being so Taboo. Hopefully, The Eye Of Judgement will see fit to squash these Hungry Hungry Hippos. Guess Who will be having less fun than a Barrel of Monkeys? The Game of Life is not lived in a Magic Kingdom - so buck up, Buckaroo.

      If anybody needs me, I'll be waiting in the library coiling some rope.

  2. Oblig. by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't tase us, Hasbro.

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  3. Okay, I get it, but... by Skyshadow · · Score: 4, Funny

    I mean, sure, Scrabulous is pretty obviously a Scrabble rip-off -- I think we all know that. But couldn't Hasbro at least have an official Scrabble game ready to replace it? If Scrabulous is forced offline, what the hell am I going to do all day when I'm at work?

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    1. Re:Okay, I get it, but... by xannash · · Score: 3, Funny

      You could do what most do...look at porn.

    2. Re:Okay, I get it, but... by Kamokazi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Buy the Scrabble board game, duh! I mean obviously you just wanted to play scrabble without paying for it, I mean the fact that the sheer convenience of playing it on a computer must have nothing to do with it, and presumably abysmal board game sales will rebound once all the DMCA notices go out...right? At least that's what the overpaid lawyers told the old and senile execs.

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  4. Re:Which game would be most challenging naked? by Freeside1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Naked Twister has potential to be awkward...

  5. Good! by DarthVain · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hate Scrabulous! Everyone stop requesting games, I can't spell you insensitive clods!

    1. Re:Good! by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 2, Funny

      I hate Scrabulous! Everyone stop requesting games, I can't spell you insensitive clods! Okay, so like, which Slashdot editor are you now?

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  6. Re:Which game would be most challenging naked? by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    most people on here only play strip solitaire.

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  7. D2 M3 C3 A1 by IronMagnus · · Score: 3, Funny

    DMCA doesn't apply to Scrabble... you can't use abbreviations in scrabble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#Acceptable_words Unless DMCA falls under the 'regularized' provision... then they should have put a Z on the end to get the triple word score and have 57 points instead of 9