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Hasbro has just filed a lawsuit against the makers of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. Scrabulous was created by Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla under the name RJ Softwares and has 506,580 daily active users according to its Facebook page.

Hasbro is alledging that Scrabulous is ripping off its board game (and now Facebook game) Scrabble. Hasbro is demanding that the application be removed from Facebook in US and Canada, since EA and Hasbro have released a Scrabble Facebook app in those countries.

Facebook Scrabulous fans aren’t happy over the lawsuit. The official Scrabulous application page is filled with notes from unhappy users, and groups with names like “Save Scrabulous,” “Save Scrabulous! Give us Scrabulous or Give us Death!” and “Please, God, I Have So Little: Don’t Take Scrabulous, Too” have all popped up. The largest of these groups, Save Scrabulous, has 45,351 members and is still growing. Nothing like a lawsuit to bring out the die-hard fans.

I know this has to be hard to hear, but Hasbro is totally in the right here. Scrabulous is blatantly Scrabble. It isn’t like Bananagrams, which you can tell is inspired by Scrabble, but then branches off to do something new. Scrabulous is the exact same game. US and Canadian users should just migrate over to the official EA and Hasbro Scrabble game on Facebook and accept the inevitable.

Read [GameDaily] Also Read [Sympatico / MSN] Site [Scrabulous]