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When the creators of a popular Facebook Scrabble knockoff disregarded notices from Hasbro, the game's US copyright holders, they eventually were hit with a lawsuit demanding that the game be taken down. Clearly upset over Hasbro's move, hackers attacked the officially sanctioned Scrabble game on Facebook, but now the imitation version is back to test the boundaries of the board game maker's copyright.

Scrabulous was taken down this week (reportedly by its creators and not Facebook), but yesterday, hackers attacked the official Scrabble version and took it down for most of the day, frustrating Scrabulous refugees. There's no word on whether the hackers were just upset users or a hit squad, but the Scrabble knockoff has now risen from the ashes as Wordscraper, a Scrabble clone that could be just different enough to avoid Hasbro's wrath... maybe.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post...rdscraper.html

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