Scrabulous blocked

[thanners]

So, I hear that Scrabulous has been blocked to U.S. and Canadian users on Facebook. That must be rather annoying.

Since it's a take-down under the DMCA, does anyone know what properties in particular are causing issues? It just seems so old, I would have thought copyright would have expired by now.

edit: Nevermind, I found Hasbro's filed

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[sunshine95]

I'm really not familiar with how all this stuff works, but I wonder why Hasbro didn't buy Scrabulous or like, hire the guys who created it to improve the code for the official game.

[thanners]

I've heard that, apparently, Hasbro did approach the brothers who created Scrabulous with an offer to buy it, or some such, but were refused. Unfortunately, I just see that repeated in various threads that talk about it, but haven't actuallly seen a source to this, so it could just be a rumour that someone started to mix things up a bit which keeps getting propagated. Also, EA and.. uh, some other company, bought the rights to created Scrabble games, so that might mess things up a bit more, too.