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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 Kuukai · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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

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

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

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

  5. 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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