Hasbro Using DMCA on Facebook Game Apps

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Posted by Zonk on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:25PM 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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Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by croddy ( 659025 ) * writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:27PM (#22071674)

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

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Oblig. (Score:5, Funny)

by Naughty Bob ( 1004174 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:30PM (#22071712)

Don't tase us, Hasbro.

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Okay, I get it, but... (Score:5, Funny)

by Skyshadow ( 508 ) * writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:30PM (#22071718) Homepage

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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Re:Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by mcmonkey ( 96054 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:31PM (#22071732) Homepage

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

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by CSMatt ( 1175471 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:32PM (#22071742)

Nope. That's Parker Brothers.

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Re:Okay, I get it, but... (Score:3, Funny)

by xannash ( 861526 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:34PM (#22071762)

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

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Re:Which game would be most challenging naked? (Score:3, Funny)

by Freeside1 ( 1140901 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:37PM (#22071810)

Naked Twister has potential to be awkward...

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Good! (Score:5, Funny)

by DarthVain ( 724186 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:40PM (#22071846)

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

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by Kuukai ( 865890 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:41PM (#22071866) Journal

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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Re:Which game would be most challenging naked? (Score:5, Funny)

by ch-chuck ( 9622 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:43PM (#22071906) Homepage

most people on here only play strip solitaire.

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Re:Okay, I get it, but... (Score:3, Funny)

by Kamokazi ( 1080091 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:46PM (#22071946)

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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Re:Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:49PM (#22071976) Homepage Journal

Ooh, ooh! L-Lemme try.

Yeah, the CEO might lose his Yahtzee!

D-Did I do it right?

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Re:Good! (Score:2, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:52PM (#22072022) Homepage Journal

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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Re:Sounds like... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:54PM (#22072048)

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!

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by Kuukai ( 865890 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:58PM (#22072112) Journal

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

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D2 M3 C3 A1 (Score:4, Funny)

by IronMagnus ( 777535 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @05:59PM (#22072126)

DMCA doesn't apply to Scrabble... you can't use abbreviations in scrabble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#Acceptable_words [wikipedia.org] 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

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:4, Funny)

by Kuukai ( 865890 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @06:01PM (#22072144) Journal

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

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:2, Funny)

by mdwh2 ( 535323 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @06:12PM (#22072332) Journal

Unfortunately for them, Parker Brothers have a Monopoly monopoly [theonion.com]...

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:5, Funny)

by The Ultimate Fartkno ( 756456 ) writes: on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @06:20PM (#22072412)

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

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Re:Sounds like... (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Thursday January 17, 2008 @07:17AM (#22078810)

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.

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