Facebook Scrabble: Like Scrabulous, Except You Can't Play

Peter Kafka | April 6, 2008 9:56 PM

scrabble.jpgMattel and RealNetworks have released a legal version of Scrabble for Facebook. Who cares? Brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who have created Scrabulous, a very popular knock-off version of the game for the social network.

When last we checked in on the Agarwallas, they were supposedly negotiating with Mattel, Real (RNWK), Hasbro and Electronic Arts (ERTS), all of whom have rights to the game. But the two brothers were said to be holding out for too much money. Presumably the introduction of a legal competitor will help get them to a reasonable price.

But not just yet. The brothers' version has 565,659 active users; Mattel and Real's has all of 1,779. We'd compare the two, but we can't: Hasbro has the rights to Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada, so Mattel and Real's version isn't available (legally) to residents of those two countries.

See Also: The Scrabulous Deal Snag: Money

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cyberbian said:
The brothers should sue Mattel and RealNetworks.
What they are doing is a blatant knockoff to steal the market they have developed.

Win or loose, it would be fun to watch!
Toti Stefansson (URL) said:
The brothers don't stand a chance. They don't hold the rights and can therefore be stopped.
Real will make a deal with Hasbro to enable US and Canadian users to play, as they are now the only ones that can legally create a global Scrabble app.
I know Real, and know they're careful with money, and they quite simply calculated that it would be cheaper for them to do it this way, leaving more potential for a positive ROI, than by meeting the brothers' price, and the brothers seem to have priced themselves out of an exit.
Which is a shame, really.
insider said:
"knock off"?

no, "rip off"

the brothers may be great programmers but they are IP thieves, pure and simple.

but, amusingly, apparently they are also clumsy and ineffectual blackmailers, to their own huge detriment (take the cash, now, you dopes.)

shame on facebook for not policing legitimate third-party IP rights, and shame on all of us for not respecting legitimate IP rights as such.

if you create content or write software or file patents or make art, you should be outraged and appalled that this blatant theft is so tolerated -- applauded, even -- by a digerati so eager to line their own pockets (by not paying for anything) that they disrespect and ultimately disembowel their own hard-fought and -won legal path to being compensated for their own toils...


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